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distribution. — Canada to Florida, west to Utah and Montana. Southern 

 States: Alabama (97); Arkansas (30); Florida (96); Georgia (148); Ken- 

 tucky (140); Louisiana (96); Mississippi (97); Missouri (1); North Carolina 

 (166); South Carolina (97); Tennessee and Virginia (52). Other States: 

 Connecticut (52); Indiana (76); Iowa (155, 156); Kansas (128); Maine 

 (90); Maryland and Massachusetts (52); Michigan (88); Minnesota (131) 

 Montana (112); Nebraska (178); New Hampshire and New Jersey (52) 

 New York (161); Oklahoma (159); South Dakota (52); Texas (108) 

 Utah (142). 



bionomics. — The females are fierce biters, attacking during daylight hours 

 and in early evening in woodlands and thickets near their breeding places. 

 Matheson (116) says that the females are known to migrate several miles. The 

 larvae of A. sticticus are found in flood pools in river valleys, especially in 



Fig. 110. Larva of Aedea sticticus (Meigen). A, Comb scale. 

 B, Terminal segments. C, Pecten tooth. D, Head. 



