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the urban mosquitoes of suva, fiji: seasonal incidence and evaluation of environmental sanitation and ulv spraying for their control.larval surveys and oviposition traps were used to monitor urban mosquito populations in two adjacent transects in suva, fiji between may 1978 and august 1979. populations of aedes aegypti and ae. pseudoscutellaris fluctuated seasonally with changes in rainfall, the latter species being most prevalent throughout the year. populations of these two species were highest between december and july and lowest between august and october. larval populations of culex quinquefasciatus did not show a season ...19807411679
the susceptibility to insecticides of disease-carrying mosquitos in fiji.the larvae and adults of five species of vector mosquitos in fiji have been tested for susceptibility to chlorinated hydrocarbon insecticides by standard techniques. four species of aëdes, three of them endemic to the south pacific, gave results not differing greatly from those found for members of the genus in other countries. culex fatigans weid was unusually susceptible as a larva but as an adult was normal.a strain of a. pseudoscutellaris theo. resistant to ddt as a larva was readily obtaine ...013689163
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