Background and aims: Mosquitoes (Diptera: Culicidae) are still a focus of research because of their role in the transmission of diseases and annoying biting behavior. Source reduction is an effective measure to control mosquito populations, which is based on good knowledge of larval habitats. This study was conducted to obtain that basic knowledge in Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari province....

They breed usually in stagnant pools containing vegetable debris, such as hollows in trunks oflrees. This species wanders further from its breeding places than culex does, and is often found where there is no possible breeding place and where C. Fatigans disappears. Only one variety of anopheles is known here, the A. Rossii, and that has been found only in two places. The breeding-place they af...

Animal welfare and the ethical issues it raises have been discussed intensively for a couple of decades. The emphasis has been on the direct effects of housing and husbandry, but more attention is now being given to problems originating in selective breeding. European attempts to adjust animal welfare legislation to deal with these problems have been largely unsuccessful, but the fact that sele...

OBJECTIVE To identify and compare the immature Culicidae population and their predators in different breeding places in a public city park. METHODS The study was carried out in an ecological park situated in the outskirts of the city of São Paulo, Brazil. Four Culicidae breeding places were selected: one semi-permanent, two permanent and one polluted brook. Throughout a year, at monthly inter...