Spatial feeding preferences of ornithophilic mosquitoes, blackflies and biting midges

Medical and Veterinary Entomology

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 104-108

  Cerny O ^a   Votypka J ^a,b   Svobodova M ^a  

^a CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^b INSTITUTE OF PARASITOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Culex; Culicoides; Eusimulium; Height preferences; Ornithophilic Diptera; Trypanosoma

Indexed keywords

BAIT; BIRD; CANOPY; FLY; FOOD PREFERENCE; HABITAT USE; HEIGHT; SPECIES RICHNESS; TAXONOMY; TRAP (EQUIPMENT); TRYPANOSOMIASIS; VERTICAL DISTRIBUTION;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; BIRD; BIRD DISEASE; CERATOPOGONIDAE; CZECH REPUBLIC; DISEASE CARRIER; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ECOSYSTEM; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; MOSQUITO; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SIMULIIDAE; TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMIASIS;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BIRD DISEASES; BIRDS; CERATOPOGONIDAE; CULICIDAE; CZECH REPUBLIC; ECOSYSTEM; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; INSECT VECTORS; SIMULIIDAE; TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMIASIS;

ANGUSTIPES; ANOPHELES PLUMBEUS; AVES; CERATOPOGONIDAE; CULEX PIPIENS; CULICIDAE; DIPTERA; EUSIMULIUM; HEXAPODA; SIMULIIDAE; TRYPANOSOMA;

EID: 79951544918     PISSN: 0269283X     EISSN: 13652915     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2915.2010.00875.x     Document Type: Article

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