Field Survival, Migration and Ovipositional Characteristics of Laboratory-Reared Toxorhynchites Rutilus Rutilus (Diptera: Culicidae)1
- 28 September 1979
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Journal of Medical Entomology
- Vol. 16 (2) , 121-127
- https://doi.org/10.1093/jmedent/16.2.121
Abstract
Three hundred and fifty 6-day-old laboratoryreared adult Toxorhyuchites rutilus rutilus were released on 2 occasions in a sparsely wooded 5.3-ha residential area in Gainesville, Florida. Oviposition was monitored for 14 days after each release by using a grid of 64 oviposition traps located within the residential area and surrounding woods (total of 12.6 ha). Eggs were deposited in an average of 70% of the ovitraps. Despite migration of females into the surrounding woods at a rate of about 6% per day, an average of 80% of the eggs recovered were laid in the residential area. Daily adult survival was estimated as 0.795 and lifetime egg production per female released as 4.88.This publication has 2 references indexed in Scilit:
- The Introduction of Mosquitoes of the Genus Toxorhynchites into American Samoa1Journal of Economic Entomology, 1956
- The Bionomics of an African Megarhinus (Dipt., Culicidae) and its possible use in Biological ControlBulletin of Entomological Research, 1951