Table 2.
Frequency and percentage for each host species differentiated for four host-feeding groups (birds, non-human mammals, humans and reptiles) of the four most abundant blood-fed mosquito species and over all mosquito species
| Host species | Culex pipiens pipiens f. pipiens | Culex theileri | Culex sitiens | Culex perexiguus | All species | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| n | % | n | % | n | % | n | % | n | % | |
| Birds | ||||||||||
| Anas spp. | 61 | 19.4 | 2 | 3.1 | 2 | 3.8 | 3 | 9.4 | 75 | 13.7 |
| Gallus gallus | 11 | 3.5 | 3 | 4.7 | 1 | 1.9 | 0 | 0 | 17 | 3.1 |
| Meleagris gallopavo | 1 | 0.3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0.2 |
| Total no. of birds | 73 | 23.2 | 5 | 7.8 | 3 | 5.7 | 3 | 9.4 | 93 | 17.0 |
| Humans | ||||||||||
| Homo sapiens | 143 | 45.5 | 12 | 18.8 | 19 | 35.8 | 15 | 46.9 | 224 | 40.9 |
| Non-human mammals | ||||||||||
| Bos taurus | 71 | 22.6 | 41 | 64.1 | 25 | 47.2 | 6 | 18.8 | 171 | 31.2 |
| Canis lupus | 17 | 5.4 | 3 | 4.7 | 3 | 5.7 | 3 | 9.4 | 29 | 5.3 |
| Capreolus capreolus | 1 | 0.3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0.2 |
| Equus asinus | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1.6 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 9.4 | 7 | 1.3 |
| Chiroptera | 1 | 0.3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 6.3 | 3 | 0.5 |
| Ovis aries | 6 | 1.9 | 2 | 3.1 | 2 | 3.8 | 0 | 0 | 16 | 2.9 |
| Rattus norvegicus | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1.9 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0.2 |
| Sus scrofa | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0.2 |
| Total no. of non-human mammals | 96 | 30.6 | 47 | 73.4 | 31 | 58.5 | 14 | 43.8 | 229 | 41.8 |
| Reptiles | ||||||||||
| Kachuga spp. | 2 | 0.6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0.4 |
| Total | 314 | 64 | 53 | 32 | 548 | |||||
Abbreviation: n number of specimens