Water Mite-Induced Mortality in a Natural Population of the Mosquito Anopheles Crucians (Diptera: Culicidae)
- 4 September 1979
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Journal of Medical Entomology
- Vol. 15 (5-6) , 529-532
- https://doi.org/10.1093/jmedent/15.5-6.529
Abstract
The effect of parasitic water mites on a natural population of their mosquito host was investigated by noting differences between the average number of mite stylostomes in 2 age groups of the host. In 6 consecutive samples, the average number of stylostomes was always higher in young than in old hosts, a consequence apparently of the higher mortality suffered by individuals that carried larger mite loads,This publication has 0 references indexed in Scilit: