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Anyone who has identified a litre jar packed with mosquitoes collected in a CDC trap from North Dakota to find 10,000 Ae. vexans for every one Oc. melanimon, knows that all mosquitoes are not created equal. The person collecting a hundred Ae. albopictus 1 for every one Cx. p. quinquefasciatus 1 in landing rate counts in Texas has an even deeper understanding of that fact (McKnight 2005).
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Species described in Chap. 10 concerning European mosquitoes.
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Becker, N. et al. (2010). North America. In: Mosquitoes and Their Control. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-92874-4_15
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