Crouching Tiger, Hidden Trouble: Urban Sources of Aedes albopictus (Diptera: Culicidae) Refractory to Source-Reduction

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 10, 2013, Pages

  Unlu, Isik ^a,b   Farajollahi, Ary ^a,b   Strickman, Daniel ^c   Fonseca, Dina M ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Mercer County Mosquito Control   (United States)

^c AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LARVICIDAL AGENT;

AEDES ALBOPICTUS; ARTHROPOD LARVA; ARTICLE; BOWL; CONTAINER; CULEX PIPIENS; INSECT CONTROL; MOTOR VEHICLE TIRE; NONHUMAN; PLASTIC BUCKET; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; PUPA (LIFE CYCLE STAGE); SEASONAL VARIATION; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; SUMMER; SWIMMING POOL; TARP; AEDES; ANIMAL; DISEASE CARRIER; MOSQUITO; POLICY; UNITED STATES;

AEDES; ANIMALS; INSECT VECTORS; MOSQUITO CONTROL; NEW JERSEY; URBAN RENEWAL;

EID: 84885974442     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0077999     Document Type: Article

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