| blood sources of mosquitoes collected from urban and peri-urban environments in eastern australia with species-specific molecular analysis of avian blood meals. | to identify the hosts of mosquitoes collected from urban and peri-urban habitats in eastern australia, 1,180 blood fed mosquitoes representing 15 species were analyzed by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay and molecular techniques. four common and epidemiologically important species could be classified according to their host-feeding patterns: aedes aegypti was anthropophilic, ae. vigilax was mammalophilic, culex quinquefasciatus was ornithophilic, and cx. annulirostris was opportunistic, readily ... | 2009 | 19861621 |
| survival of insects in the wheel bays of a boeing 747b aircraft on flights between tropical and temperate airports. | mosquitos (culex quinquefasciatus), house flies (musca domestica), and flour beetles (tribolium confusum) located in cages within the wheel bays of a boeing 747b aircraft, survived travel on the following normal commercial routes: sydney-melbourne; melbourne-singapore; singapore-bangkok; bangkok-singapore; and singapore-melbourne. survival of all three species was high, averaging 84% for mosquitos and higher for flies (93%) and beetles (>99%). although external temperatures were -42 degrees c to ... | 1987 | 3501345 |