BLOOD-MEAL SOURCES AND NOTES ON HOST PREFERENCES OF SOME AEDES MOSQUITOES (DIPTERA:CULICIDAE)

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Abstract
Blood meals of engorged female Aedes mosquitoes collected from animal dwellings, light traps, and hand catches were identified by serological precipitin tests. The mosquitoes had fed on farm animals, humans, rodents, raccoons, deer, and probably foxes. Very few of the specimens had fed on birds and few contained the blood of more than one kind of host. Preliminary studies in a screened enclosure in a one-room barn that contained various combinations of domestic animals and humans indicated that a preference shown by mosquitoes for a mammalian host is related to the surface area of the host.

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