biological control of container-breeding mosquitoes, aedes albopictus and culex quinquefasciatus, in a japanese island by release of toxorhynchites splendens adults. | to control container-breeding mosquitoes in the small island of minnajima (0.56 km2), northern okinawa, japan, laboratory-reared adults (aged 7-10 days) of toxorhynchites splendens (palawan strain), a mosquito with predatory larvae, were released repeatedly during 1984, 1986 and 1987. thirteen species of mosquitoes (diptera: culicidae) occurred in artificial containers, ground pools or crab-holes on the island, the predominant species being aedes (stegomyia) albopictus and culex (culex) quinquef ... | 1992 | 1358271 |