Mosquito Biology
True or False: All mosquitoes require a bloodmeal.
What is False!
(only females require bloodmeals to produce eggs)
These are the three salt water breeding mosquito species in California and their common mnemonic device.
What are Aedes squamiger, Ae. dorsalis, and Ae. taeniorhynchus "STD"
This was formed in 1930
What is the California Mosquito Control Association
This mosquito vectors yellow fever
What is Ae. aegypti
These things transmit organisms that result in infectious diseases in humans and other vertebrate animals
What is vectors
This is the three main differences between male and female mosquitos
What is...
fuzzy vs non fuzzy antennae
Long vs short palpi (exception Anopheles)
hooked clasping reproductive organ vs rounded abdomen with tiny pointed Ovi positioners
This genus eggs float singly on the water
What is Anopheles?
This is where organized control of mosquitos began.
What is the Salt Marshes of San Rafael
These mosquitoes in California are able to vector human malaria
What are Anopheles freeborni, An. hermsi, An. punctipennis
These mosquitoes vector dengue fever, Chikungunya, Zika
What are Aedes aegypti and Ae. albopictus
These are the active piercing parts on mosquitos
What are the movable toothed maxillary stylets.
These two mosquitoes breed in snow melt ponds
What are Aedes tahoensis and Ae. hexodontus
This is an altered physiological state in which certain activities such as bloodfeeding, ovarian development, or flying are suspended
What is Diapause
This is the primary vector for Dog heartworm in California
What is Aedes sierrensis
This is the primary vector of California encephalitis
What is Aedes melanimon
This process is how mosquito larvae that live in fresh water tend to lose ions with excess water uptake
What is osmosis?
This mosquito is commonly found in Southern California date groves
What is Psorophora columbiae
This system allows individual agencies to maintain multi-year surveillance data that can be downloaded to agency computers in bulk. It also provides for data sharing among local agencies, state entities, and federal bodies.
What is CalSurv
This becomes infected with a pathogen, but do not serve as a source of infection for any additional hosts
What is a Dead End Host
This type of transmission in which the pathogen multiplies within the mosquito but does not undergo any changes in developmental form
What is Propagative transmission
This is the nerve mass in mosquitos
What is a Ganglion
These mosquito are medium-sized to large mosquitoes. Females have a pointed abdomen, a median white band on the first segment of the hind tarsi, and wings speckled with dark and light scales in no definite pattern.
What are Ps. columbiae
This is most common and oldest adult surveillance method requiring 110V power source
What is a New Jersey Light Trap
These equine cases are confirmed, it is a sign that activity has amplified to levels where human cases are eminent
What are WNV and WEE
____________ transmission occurs when a female mosquito transmits a pathogen to her eggs prior to oviposition
What is Transovarial