Comparisons of Rice Field Mosquito (Diptera: Culicidae) Abundance among Areas with Different Agricultural Practices in Northern Thailand

Journal of Medical Entomology

Volumn 35, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 845-848

  Tsuda, Yoshio ^a   Takagi, Masahiro ^a   Suwonkerd, Wannapa ^a,b   Sugiyama, Akira ^a,c   Wada, Yoshito ^a  

^a NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b MINISTRY OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Thailand)

^c NAGOYA WOMEN'S UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Culex; Light trap; Pig baited collection; Rice culturing practices; Thailand; Truck trap

Indexed keywords

CULEX FUSCOCEPHALA; CULEX GELIDUS; CULEX PSEUDOVISHNUI; CULEX TRITAENIORHYNCHUS; CULEX VISHNUI; CULICIDAE; DIPTERA; SUS SCROFA;

AGRICULTURE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CULEX; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; LARVA; METHODOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; RICE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SWINE; THAILAND;

AGRICULTURE; ANIMALS; CULEX; LARVA; ORYZA SATIVA; POPULATION DENSITY; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SWINE; THAILAND;

EID: 0032161208     PISSN: 00222585     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jmedent/35.5.845     Document Type: Article

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