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Temperature-dependent development and survival rates of Culex quinquefasciatus and Aedes aegypti (Diptera: Culicidae).

L. M. Rueda, K. Patel, R. Axtell, R. Stinner

1990.9.1JOURNAL OF MEDICAL ENTOMOLOGY

DOI: 10.1093/jmedent/27.5.892

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In both species, body size generally decreased as temperature increased, and survival from eclosion to adult emergence was highest in the range from 20 to 30 degrees C and dropped drastically at 15 (38%) and 34 degrees C.

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RUEDA, L. M., et al. Temperature-dependent development and survival rates of culex quinquefasciatus and aedes aegypti (diptera: Culicidae). JOURNAL OF MEDICAL ENTOMOLOGY, 1990, 27 5: 892–8.