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Volume 11, Number 9—September 2005
Research

West Nile Virus–infected Mosquitoes, Louisiana, 2002

Marvin S. Godsey*, Roger Nasci*, Harry M. Savage*, Stephen Aspen*, Raymond King*, Ann M. Powers*, Kristen Burkhalter*, Leah Colton*, Dawn Charnetzky*, Sarah Lasater*, Viki Taylor†, and Charles T. Palmisano†
Author affiliations: *Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Fort Collins, Colorado, USA; †St. Tammany Parish Mosquito Abatement District, Slidell, Louisiana, USA

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Table 2

Mosquito species collected in St. Tammany and Tangipahoa Parishes, Louisiana, August 3–15, 2002

Species No. of mosquitoes
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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