Experimental assessment of the impacts of northern long-eared bats on ovipositing culex (Diptera: Culicidae) mosquitoes

Journal of Medical Entomology

Volumn 46, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1037-1044

  Reiskind, Michael H ^a   Wund, Matthew A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b The College of New Jersey   (United States)

Author keywords

Enclosure experiments; Mosquitoes; Predation; Predator effects; Vector borne disease

Indexed keywords

CULICIDAE; DIPTERA; MYOTIS SEPTENTRIONALIS;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BAT; CULEX; EGG LAYING; FEMALE; LARVA; POPULATION DENSITY; PREDATION;

ANIMALS; CHIROPTERA; CULEX; FEMALE; LARVA; OVIPOSITION; POPULATION DENSITY; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR;

EID: 70350510070     PISSN: 00222585     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1603/033.046.0510     Document Type: Article

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