Host Feeding Patterns of Connecticut Mosquitoes (Diptera: Culicidae)

摘要: Blood-engorged Coquillettidia perturbans, Psorophora ferox, Culex, Culiseta, and Aedes mosquitoes were collected principally by sweep net from salt marsh woodland habitats in Connecticut. Of the 570 tested, precipitin tests identified origins of 517 blood meals revealed distinct host feeding patterns. fed chiefly on mammals; A. abserratus, cantator, vexans showed selectivity for cattle (or) horses. cantator also obtained avian hosts and, some instances, mixed passerine-mammal meals. These findings increase vector potential this mosquito eastern equine encephalomyelitis virus. Feedings deer abserratus suggest involvement transmission certain subtypes California encephalitis. Culex-pipiens, C. restuans, Culiseta melanura, Cs. morsitans dyari acquired almost exclusively passeriform birds.