The relationship between body size and parity status of adult female Culiseta melanura collected from 3 locations in northeastern United States was studied by measuring wing lengths and examining ovaries of individual mosquitoes. Virus isolation was attempted from Cs. melanura collected in Maryland and in New Jersey. At all 3 locations, the size of Cs. melanura collected varied from large in th...

Invertebrate iridescent viruses (IIVs) are icosahedral DNA viruses that infect invertebrates, mainly insects and terrestrial isopods, in damp and aquatic habitats. Exhaustive searches of databases resulted in the identification of 79 articles reporting 108 invertebrate species naturally infected by confirmed or putative iridoviruses. Of these, 103 (95%) were arthropods and the remainder were mo...

The aim of this study was to evaluate mosquito abundance, species diversity, larval and adult population dynamics in seven lagoons integrated in the wetland coastal system of the Algarve, Portugal, in the summer of 2007, as well as the screening of these for West Nile virus (WNV). WNV has been isolated from mosquitoes in this region, in the summer of 2004, next to the putative area of infection...

BACKGROUND According to the national strategy plan on monitoring of insecticides resistance, this study was carried out to determine the base line susceptibility of the Culicidae mosquitoes to the WHO-recommended insecticides in an endemic focus of malaria in southeastern Iran. METHODS Larval collection was carried out by dipping method and adult collection occurred by suction tube from Janua...

Moshe Kiflawi*, Leon Blaustein and Marc Mangel Institute of Evolution, Faculty of Science, University of Haifa, Haifa 31905, Israel Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics, Jack Baskin School of Engineering, University of California, Santa Cruz 95064, USA *Correspondence: E-mail: [email protected] Abstract We investigated the mechanism underlying oviposition habitat selection (OHS) ...

Çalışmada İstanbul’un 27 ilçesinde (Avrupa yakasında Arnavutköy, Avcılar, Başakşehir, Beşiktaş, Beylikdüzü, Büyükçekmece, Çatalca, Esenler, Esenyurt, Eyüpsultan, Gaziosmanpaşa, Kağıthane, Küçükçekmece, Sarıyer, Silivri, Sultangazi, Anadolu Ataşehir, Beykoz, Kartal, Maltepe, Pendik, Sancaktepe, Sultanbeyli, Şile, Tuzla, Ümraniye, Üsküdar) sivrisinek türleri ile invaziv Aedes (Diptera: Culicidae)...

background: mosquito-borne diseases are a major public health threat in iran. the objective of this study was to de­ter­mine the fauna of culicinae mosquitoes for future mosquito control programs. methods: three genera and eleven species of the subfamily culicinae (diptera: culicidae) were collected by dipping tech­nique and identified in chabahar county, sistan and baluchistan province, southe...

1. St. Louis virus has been successfully transmitted in the laboratory by the following 9 species of mosquitoes from 3 genera: Culex tarsalis, Culex pipiens, Culex coronator, Aedes lateralis, Aedes taeniorhynchus, Aedes vexans, Aedes nigromaculis, Theobaldia incidens, and Theobaldia inornata. 2. Though transmission has not been demonstrated, survival of the virus for more than a few days was sh...