Table 3.
Mosquito species with avian blood meals
| Mosquito species | Bird species | Total | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blackbird | Barn swallow | Chicken | Dark-breasted barn owl | Eurasian skylark | European starling | Grey heron | House sparrow | Long-eared owl | Meadow pipit | Mute swan | Stock dove | Wood pigeon | Yellow wagtail | ||
| An. maculipennis (s.l.)a | 0 | 0 | 60 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 71 |
| Cx. modestus | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| Cx. pipiens f. pipiens | 19 | 92 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 12 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 42 | 1 | 97 |
| Cs. morsitans | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Culiseta spp.a | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| Unknown (damaged) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Total | 22 | 95 | 61 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 14 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 11 | 44 | 1 | 262 |
Avian blood meals identified from the mosquito species in this study
aindicates species that also fed on mammals (see Table 3)