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. 2021 Oct 11;16(10):e0255321. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0255321

Table 1. Number of different mosquito species collected from aquatic habitats in Bungoma and Kombewa in Kenya in the months of November 2019 to November 2020.

Study site Habitat Larval Counts per Mosquito Species (n (%))
Type N An. funestus s.l An. gambiae s.l An. coustani Culex spp
Bungoma Man-made ponds 26 553 (53)a 81(37) 0(0) 15(47)i
Natural ponds/rain pools 12 100 (10) c 2(1)g 0(0) 0(0)
Drainage ditches 19 374(36) e 120(54) 0(0) 3(9)k
Swamps/marshes 21 8(1) 18(8) 0(0) 14(44)
Tyre tracks 2 0(0) 0(0) 0(0) 0(0)
Kombewa Man-made ponds 20 115(61)b 67(9) 33(32) 162(19)j
Natural ponds/rain pools 11 25(13) d 249(34)h 24(23) 188(21)
Drainage ditches 17 40(21)f 286(39) 47(45) 489(56)l
Swamp/marshes 22 9(5) 137(18) 0(0) 34(4)
Tyre tracks 1 0(0) 0(0) 0(0) 0(0)
Bungoma Total 80 1035 221 0 32
Kombewa Total 71 189 739 104 873

N is the number of habitats and n is the number of mosquitoes of different species in each habitat type. a and b, c and d, e and f, g and h, i and j, k and l superscripts indicate statistical significance at P<0.05 between the number of mosquito larvae in each habitat type between the study sites.