Volume 11, Number 9—September 2005
Research
West Nile Virus–infected Mosquitoes, Louisiana, 2002
Table 2
Mosquito species collected in St. Tammany and Tangipahoa Parishes, Louisiana, August 3–15, 2002
| Species | No. of mosquitoes |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No. of pools | Light traps | Gravid traps | Other methods* | Total (%) | |
| Culex erraticus | 310 | 8,319 | 411 | 3 | 8,733 (27) |
| Cx. quinquefasciatus | 311 | 539 | 6,326 | 98 | 6,963 (22) |
| Aedes albopictus | 321 | 1,007 | 1,457 | 860 | 3,324 (11) |
| Coquillettidia perturbans | 107 | 2,159 | 114 | 0 | 2,273 (7) |
| Cx. salinarius | 144 | 1,809 | 155 | 49 | 2,013 (7) |
| Culex species | 171 | 389 | 1,318 | 37 | 1,744 (6) |
| Ae. triseriatus/hendersoni† | 159 | 198 | 86 | 782 | 1,066 (3) |
| Psorophora ferox | 117 | 909 | 27 | 37 | 973 (3) |
| Ps. howardii | 112 | 680 | 2 | 4 | 686 (2) |
| Uranotaenia sapphirina | 59 | 631 | 48 | 0 | 679 (2) |
| Ae. vexans | 83 | 500 | 18 | 24 | 542 (2) |
| Ae. infirmatus | 90 | 465 | 7 | 17 | 489 (2) |
| Ae. atlanticus/tormentor† | 78 | 371 | 28 | 37 | 436 (1) |
| Ae. taeniorhynchus | 41 | 231 | 12 | 46 | 289 (<1) |
| Aedes species | 59 | 198 | 15 | 17 | 230 (<1) |
| Ps. columbiae | 54 | 188 | 4 | 4 | 196 (<1) |
| Anopheles crucians complex | 66 | 184 | 4 | 3 | 191 (<1) |
| 10 other species | 193 | 317 | 65 | 6 | 388 (1) |
| Total | 2,471 | 19,094 | 10,097 | 2,024 | 31,215 (100) |
*Other methods: mechanical aspirator, duplex cone trap, Fay-Prince trap, oviposition trap.
†Not identified to species.
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