Daily survivorship of adult Aedes communis in a high mountain environment in California.

Type

Article

Date of Publication

1990

Original Publication

Journal of the American Mosquito Control Association

Volume

6

Series / Issue

Issue: 4

Pages

662-666

Contributed by

American Mosquito Control Association

Notes

Author(s) - Eldridge BF.Reeves WC.

 

Abstract

Using mark-release-recapture methods and linear regression analysis, daily survivorship for 3 groups of Aedes communis in a high mountain environment in the Sierra Nevada of California were estimated to be 0.90, 0.91 and 0.88, respectively. Multiple recaptures of marked females were made for up to 33 days after release. Precise estimates were not made of gonotrophic cycle lengths. However, parity data, based on dissections of samples of marked and unmarked females, suggest the length of gonotrophic cycles was between 1 and 2 weeks.

Notes

Author(s) - Eldridge BF.Reeves WC.