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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 1 Ae. (Ochlerotatus) melanimon, knows that all mosquitoes are not created equal. The person collecting a hundred Ae. albopictus∗ for every one Cx. quinquefasciatus∗ in landing rate counts in Texas, has an even deeper understanding of that fact (McKnight 2005).
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Becker, N. et al. (2020). North America. In: Mosquitoes. Fascinating Life Sciences. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-11623-1_15
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