Survey examination of hypodermatosis infection of deers living in the wildin South-Transdanubia

In Somogy and Baranya counties 285 deers from 322 (91.6%) examined during t he hunting seasons of 1997-38 and 1998-99 were infected by warble fly larva e. The opinion of the authors is that it would be necessary to work out and operate an effective and systematically used warble fly eradication progra m because of the high incidence of the disease and direct and indirect dama ges.