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标题：Cane-sugar feeding in Culex pipiens fatigans
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作者：Botha de Meillon ; Anthony Sebastian ; Z. H. Khan 等
期刊名称：Bulletin of the World Health Organization
印刷版ISSN：0042-9686
出版年度：1967
卷号：36
期号：1
页码：53-65
语种：English
出版社：World Health Organisation
摘要：The relatively poor results that have been obtained in controlling or eradicating Culex pipiens fatigans, the urban vector of Wuchereria bancrofti, have made it necessary to obtain as much information as possible about its biology. In this paper the unexpected finding of the influence of cane sugar in delaying oviposition in the gravid female is reported. This is an important finding for those who are investigating the biology of this mosquito in the laboratory and who make use of the age-old practice of keeping adult mosquitos alive by feeding them cane sugar. It is also reported that under certain conditions extensive cane-sugar feeding takes place in nature and it seems possible that this habit may have unsuspected repercussions on behaviour and physiology beyond the confines of the laboratory. One possible development would be the isolation of the attractant present in unrefined sugars and its use in traps in order to assess mosquito populations in the field. Full text Full text is available as a scanned copy of the original print version. Get a printable copy (PDF file) of the complete article (1.3M), or click on a page image below to browse page by page. 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65