Toxorhynchites rutilus rutilus, effect of shipment by commercial air carrier on adults.

Type

Article

Date of Publication

1980

Original Publication

Mosquito News

Volume

40

Series / Issue

Issue: 4

Pages

506-510

Contributed by

American Mosquito Control Association

Notes

Author(s) - Focks, D. A. and D. A. Dame.

 

Abstract

A technique is described for shipping adult Toxorhynchites rutilus rutilus by commercial air carrier to allow the production of this mosquito predator at a site distant from the release site. Indoor and field evaluations of the shipping procedure indicated that the technique temporarily increases fecundity but reduces overall adult daily survival and total oviposition.

Notes

Author(s) - Focks, D. A. and D. A. Dame.