Volume 25, Number 6—June 2019
Research
Patterns of Abundance, Host Use, and Everglades Virus Infection in Culex (Melanoconion) cedecei Mosquitoes, Florida, USA
Isaiah J. Hoyer, Carolina Acevedo, Keenan Wiggins, Barry W. Alto, and Nathan D. Burkett-Cadena
Table 2
Culex cedecei mosquito blood meal host species, by park region and season, Everglades National Park, Florida, USA, 2016
| Vertebrate host species | Lower |
Middle |
Upper |
Total | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dry | Wet | Dry | Wet | Dry | Wet | |||||
| Anolis sagrei | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | |||
| Homo sapiens sapiens | 6 | 1 | 2 | 9 | 0 | 16 | 34 | |||
| Lontra canadensis | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |||
| Neotoma floridana | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |||
| Odocoileus virginianus | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | |||
| Oryzomys palustris | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | |||
| Peromyscus gossypinus | 3 | 0 | 4 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 14 | |||
| Procyon lotor | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | |||
| Rattus spp. | 12 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 52 | 85 | |||
| Sigmodon hispidus | 12 | 9 | 21 | 73 | 5 | 81 | 201 | |||
| Sylvilagus floridanus | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |||
| Undetermined |
6 |
5 |
9 |
53 |
2 |
29 |
104 |
|||
| Total | 41 | 20 | 38 | 147 | 12 | 193 | 451 | |||
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