Article: Impact of residual insecticide applied to upper story vegetation on resting adult mosquitoes (Diptera: Culicidae).(Report)

West Nile virus (WNV) is one of many mosquito-vectored encephalitis viruses that concern citizens throughout the United States. WNV, a Flauiuirus, caused over 9,800 disease cases in the United States in 2003 (CDC 2004). The WNV reservoir and most isolates were from birds, especially crows and other corvids showing that most isolations were identified from bird-feeding Culex spp. (Hayes 1989; Hubalek & Halouzka 1999; Turell et al. 2001). In the eastern United States, the Culex pipiens L. complex is responsible for the majority of WNV isolations from field-collected mosquitoes (CDC 2000). In Kentucky (USA), Aedes (Stegomyia) albopictus (Skuse) is the dominant ...

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