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An Inland Record of Aëdes detritus, Haliday (Diptera, Culicidæ)

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AN investigation was recently carried out by our Institute in the neighbourhood of Droitwich (Worcestershire), where annoyance due to mosquitoes has been experienced from time to time. The trouble proved to be due to the existence of a local breeding area of the two British coastal mosquitoes, Aëdes detritus, Haliday, and Aëdes caspius, Pallas.

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  1. British Mosquito Control Institute, Hayling Island, Hants

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MARSHALL, J. An Inland Record of Aëdes detritus, Haliday (Diptera, Culicidæ). Nature 132, 135 (1933). https://doi.org/10.1038/132135a0

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