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Digital Collections at BYU
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | page 2-92 Phase II summary report (final) : Utah Lake water quality, hydrology and aquatic biology impact analysis summary for the irrigation and drainage system--Bonneville Unit, Central Utah Project, page 2-92 |
| Coverage | Electronic reproduction; |
| Format | 2-92 text/PDF |
| Rights | Brigham Young University; http://lib.byu.edu/about/copyright/generic.php Public Domain Public |
| Language | English; eng; en |
| Relation | Central Utah Project; Western Waters Digital Library; animals and birds availability of hosts apparently determines the source of blood meals for this mosquito observation on the flight range of C tarsalis marsalis tar salis in utah indicate movements of ten miles is not uncommon culex piens pipiens pipkens pi the species culex pid pip pipiens pipkens lens tens is is widely distributed and abundant in utah county but is not particularly abundant in the marshes or agricultural areas adjoining utah lake the larvae are found in a wide variety of natural sites and in artificial containers especially in urban areas although in this area the females do not readily bite humans the adults enter houses and constitute an annoyance it has been reported that western equine and st louis encephalitis virus have been isolated from wild specimens the eggs of this species are laid in raf rafts ts on the water surf surface ace and several broods per year are produced the overwintering wintering over stage is the adult female culex erythrothorax ervthrothorax nielsen and rees 1961 reported culex erythrothorax ervthrothorax to be abundant in the valleys of northern utah beck 1961 reported it fourth in abundance of the ten most common species in central utah county but either he misidentified this species or its relative abundance has changed significantly utah mosquito abatement district records place C erythrothorax ervthrothorax as eighth to tenth in abundance during 19791980 1979 1980 the larvae are found in semi permanent or permanent marshes large numbers of larvae are found associated with cattails coattails cat tails and bulrushes bul rushes primarily scirpus three square C erythrothorax ervthrothorax are generally found in the same habitat areas as C tarsalis marsalis tar salis and C inornata incornata inor nata figure 2d ad 2 but confined to the deeper more permanently watered areas As a result of a three year study in six northern and central nevada counties chapman 1962 reported this species as overwintering over wintering 292 2 92 |
| Identifier | http://cdm15999.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/WesternWatersProject/id/9002 |
