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A Blood-Free Diet to Rear Anopheline Mosquitoes
Published on: January 31, 2020
Host-feeding patterns of Culex mosquitoes in relation to trap habitat
Lisa A Patrican1, Laura E Hackett, James E Briggs
1State of New York Department of Health, Ithaca, New York, USA. lap2@cornell.edu
Emerging Infectious Diseases
|February 9, 2008
Abstract:
Mosquito feeding patterns identify vertebrate species potentially involved in the amplification of West Nile virus. In New York, northern cardinals (Cardinalis cardinalis) were the predominant hosts in most habitats. Crow (Corvus sp.) blood meals were most frequently identified from sewage treatment plant and storm water catch basin habitats.

