Daily patterns of locomotor and sugar-feeding activity of the mosquito Culex annulirostris from geographically isolated populations

Physiological Entomology

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 309-316

  Williams, Craig R ^a,b   Kokkinn, Michael J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Activity patterns; Australia; Culex annulirostris; Locomotion; Mosquitoes; Sugar feeding; Variation

Indexed keywords

DIURNAL ACTIVITY; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; LOCOMOTION; MOSQUITO;

CULEX ANNULIROSTRIS;

EID: 28944454256     PISSN: 03076962     EISSN: 13653032     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3032.2005.00462.x     Document Type: Article

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