Table 5 Results of the models (Generalized Additive Models) for the significant climatic variables related to inter-annual (between years) patterns of female abundance for three species of mosquitoes that were captured regularly in the three localities

Culex pipiens

Annual maximum temperature

2

7.694

0.02134

72.8

Winter rainfall

2

11.467

0.00324

Ochlerotatus caspius

Annual mean temperatures

1.73

11.61

0.00293

55.7

Ochlerotatus detritus

Winter rainfall

1

6.656

0.00988

43.7