West Nile Virus Links for Texas
Anopheles crucians - Virginia Mosquito Control
Association
http://www.mosquito-va.org/anopheles__crucians.htm
Anopheles quadrimaculatus - The "Quads" or
Common Malaria Mosquito - Rutgers
http://www-rci.rutgers.edu/~insects/sp3.htm
Coquillettidia perturbans - Cattail Mosquito - Virginia Mosquito Control
Association
http://www.mosquito-va.org/coquillettidia_perturbans.htm
Culex nigripalpus - Florida SLE mosquito - Univ. Florida
http://creatures.ifas.ufl.edu/aquatic/FL_sle_mosquito.htm
Culex restuans -
Rutgers
http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~insects/rest.htm
Ochlerotatus (=Aedes) sollicitans - Eastern Saltmarsh Mosquito
-
Rutgers
http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~insects/sp7.htm
Ochlerotatus (=Aedes) triseriatus - "Tris" or The Eastern
Treehole Mosquito
http://www-rci.rutgers.edu/~insects/sp9.htm
Tris females can also pass the LAC virus on through the eggs to the next generation thus providing an overwintering mechanism the for virus. Male Tris infected by the transovarial route can, in turn, infect females with the virus during mating, a kind of "mosquito venereal disease."
Psorophora columbiae - Dark Ricefield Mosquito -
Rutgers
http://www-rci.rutgers.edu/~insects/sp4.htm
19 May 2005 © Mike Quinn entomike@gmail.com / Texas Entomology