mosquito larva

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The dytiscids showed no other differences in preference for small and large mosquito larvae.
Therefore, the size of dytiscid species that colonize a wetland is important for the magnitude of their 'natural control' of mosquito larvae.
The highest density of anopheline mosquito larvae was found amongst dense vegetation, and only rarely in the free water surface.
Discriminant analysis was used to identify associations between land surface classes and the presence or absence of the different species of mosquito larvae.
No refugium was available for the mosquito larvae.
Since some dytiscid species can efficiently decrease populations of mosquito larvae, they are probably important in the natural control of these dipterans.
Nonetheless, there is little evidence that populations of mosquito larvae in the field are actually limited by predation.
Instead, their importance in the natural control of mosquito larvae is in focus in this study.
Twenty individuals of each prey type and each size class (in all, 40 mosquito larvae and 40 water fleas) were added to the aquarium.
They do not object to feeding on those mosquito larvae whose bodies are very hairy.
In this position they can detect disturbances in the surface film of the water made by mosquito larvae or pupae coming up to breathe.
The mosquito larvae were assigned to size classes, and the mid value from each class was used.
At each collection site, dipping was delayed for 3 min to let the mosquito larvae surface after the disturbance of the water.
The sparse data available suggest that rotifers, copepods and mosquito larvae may be important predators of protozoa.
Efforts to decrease mosquitolarva by decreasing the availability of open water in which they develop or by adding substances to decrease their development is effective in some locations.
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