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night has been about 3,000. The species seems much less inclined 
than sol/icitans to attack in bright sunlight, but it commonly is very 
annoying in the shade in the mangrove and other woods. 
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FIGuRE 13.—Aedes taeniorhynchus, one of the salt-marsh mosquitoes. 
Aedes taeniorhynchus breeds prolifically in the salt marshes when 
they are flooded by rains or tides and also in fresh-water pools 
nearby. In the laboratory the eggs have hatched and the larvae have 
