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Volume 12, Number 3—March 2006
Research

Host Feeding Patterns of Culex Mosquitoes and West Nile Virus Transmission, Northeastern United States

Goudarz Molaei*Comments to Author , Theodore G. Andreadis*, Philip M. Armstrong*, John F. Anderson*, and Charles R. Vossbrinck*
Author affiliations: *The Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station, New Haven, Connecticut, USA

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Table 4

Monthly prevalence of avian-derived blood meals in Culex pipiens

Month Total avian American robin, n (%) Gray catbird, n (%) House sparrow, n (%) Mourning dove, n (%) European starling, n (%) Other species, n (%)
June 93 58 (62.4) 2 (2.2) 4 (4.3) 12 (12.9) 17 (18.3)
July 30 8 (26.7) 2 (6.7) 9 (30.0) 3 (10.0) 2 (6.7) 6 (20.0)
August 36 14 (38.9) 6 (16.7) 4 (11.1) 3 (8.3) 9 (25.0)
September 35 9 (25.7) 3 (8.6) 7 (20.0) 16 (45.7)
October
4

3 (75.0)
1 (25.0)



Total 198 80 22 21 13 14 48

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