Table 3 Sources of blood meals identified in mosquitoes collected in eastern Central Queensland
From: Identification of the source of blood meals in mosquitoes collected from north-eastern Australia
Common host name | Host species | Mosquito species | Total blood meal sources identified | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Cx. annuli | Cx. quinque | Cx. sitiens | Man. uniformis | Ae. vigilax | Ae. vittiger | Ae. notoscriptus | |||
Human | Homo sapiens | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Mammals (39/54) |
Chimpanzee | Pan troglodytes | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Cattle | Bos taurus | 23 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | |
Brushtail possum | Trichosurus vulpecula | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Deer | Rusa timorensis | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Horse | Equus caballus | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Pig | Sus scrofa | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Wallaby | Macropus agilis | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
Carpet python | Morelia spilota imbricata | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Reptile (1/54) |
Butcher bird | Cracticus torquatus | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Birds (14/54) |
Australian magpie | Gymnorhina tibicen | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Australian raven | Corvus coronoides | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Cuckoo | Centropus bengalensis | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Fig bird | Sphecotheres vieilloti | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Heron | Butorides striata | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Pelican | Pelecanus conspicillatus | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Proportion of mosquitoes with identified blood meal | 39/5792 (0.67%) | 4/11 (36%) | 6/42 (14.2%) | 1/36 (2.7%) | 2/422 (0.47%) | 1/76 (1.3%) | 1/43 (2.3%) | Â | |