Field Releases with Adults and Pupae of Toxorhynchites Rutilus Rutilus (Diptera: Culicidae)
- 26 May 1983
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Journal of Medical Entomology
- Vol. 20 (3) , 308-312
- https://doi.org/10.1093/jmedent/20.3.308
Abstract
Laboratory-reared adults and pupae of Toxorhynchites rutilus rutilus were released in a 9-square-block (7.5-ha) residential area and in a ca. 60-ha pine forest during 1980 and 1981 to compare oviposition rate, length of ovipositional period, and daily adult survival. Of these criteria, only female fecundity differed between 2 release methods; females from the pupal release laid ca. 50% more eggs than those released as adults. Survival rates and ovipositional periods for the 2 groups were similar.This publication has 2 references indexed in Scilit:
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- The Introduction of Mosquitoes of the Genus Toxorhynchites into American Samoa1Journal of Economic Entomology, 1956