Back to the West Nile Virus listserv archive.

Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2002
Posted by: Richard Lampman (rlampman@inhs.uiuc.edu)

Culex restuans may be underrepresented in dry ice traps (Brust, R.A., 1990. Oviposition behavior of natural populations of Culex tarsalis and Culex restuans (Diptera:Culicidae) in artificial pools. J. Med. Entomol. 27:248-255.).

In gravid traps, the relative species abundance of Cx. pipiens and Cx. restuans may depend on the infusion used as bait (Lampman, R.L. and R.J. Novak, 1996. Oviposition preference of Culex pipiens and Culex restuans for infusion-baited traps. J. Am. Mosq. Control Assoc. 12:23-32).

We had considerable success with Ae. albopictus in gravid traps (Lampman, R.L. and R.J. Novak, 1996. Attraction of Aedes albopictus adults to sod infusion. J. Am. Mosq. Control Assoc. 12:119-124).

Our pools of Culex from this year are scheduled to be analyzed later to determine whether they were a mixture of rest.-pips-sals.

Rich

-- 
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
WESTNILEVIRUS-L is an email discussion group for communication
and discussion about West Nile Virus, particularly regarding policy,
risk reduction and public education issues. It is moderated by
Dr. Lois Levitan at Cornell University's Center for the Environment.
To subscribe (or unsubscribe), send an email request to envrisk@cornell.edu.
Subscribers are encouraged to post to the group by sending an email to:
WESTNILEVIRUS-L@cornell.edu.  Please send only unformatted text,
without attachments.   Archives  are posted at: 
http://www.cfe.cornell.edu/erap/WNV/WNV-LArchiveIndex.cfm
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------