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  • noun Any mosquito of the subfamily Culicinae

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Examples

  • J. 14 Laboratory studies: effect of Azolla coverage on culicine mosquitoes

    Chapter 13 1996

  • Laboratory studies in China on the effect of Azolla coverage on mosquito oviposition and emergence showed that culicine mosquitoes can not lay there eggs at all in water that is completely covered with the fern.

    Chapter 13 1996

  • Anopheline vectors of malaria as a general rule prefer clean water, while the culicine vectors of filariasis breed in organically polluted water.

    1. Target audience, objectives, scope and structure 1996

  • The culicine vectors are all species breeding in irrigated rice fields (especially at the early stages of flooding, before the rice plants have developed into a canopy).

    Chapter 5 1996

  • J. 14 Laboratory studies: effect of Azolla coverage on culicine mosquitoes

    Chapter 13 1996

  • Slide J. 14 Laboratory studies: effect of Azolla coverage on culicine mosquitoes

    Chapter 13 1996

  • For example, water-seal slabs in latrines reduce the breeding sites for culicine mosquitos, vectors of filariasis; treatment of excrete prior to its disposal can kill the eggs and cysts of many human parasites (Ascaris, Entamoeba, and Schistosoma spp), thus preventing contamination of both ground and water.

    Chapter 4 1992

  • An. darlingi proteins were found that match culicine but not anopheline proteins, indicating loss or rapid evolution of these proteins in the old world Cellia subgenus.

    BioMed Central - Latest articles 2009

  • But for Spencer Conway, 42, that was the easy Asian territories and culicine mosquito populations are expected to increase.

    WN.com - Articles related to Trans World Expedition: Driving around the world 2009

  • 1920-1964 Os vespine wasp 1843 - bombycine silkworm 1884 OW W culicine mosquito

    VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol IV No 1 1977

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