Effect of Body Size on Host Seeking and Blood Meal Utilization in Anopheles gambiae
sensu stricto (Diptera: Culicidae): the Disadvantage of Being Small.
W. Takken, M. J. Klowden, and G. M. Chambers . . . . 639
New Procedures to Estimate Water Temperatures and Water Depths for Application in
Climate-Dengue Modeling.
Shouquan Cheng, Laurence S. Kalkstein, Dana A. Focks, and Austine Nnaji . . . . 646
Minimum Infection Rate of Ambylomma americanum (Acari: Ixodidae) by Ehrlichia
chaffeensis (Rickettsiales: Ehrlichieae ) in Southern Indiana.
Christopher T. Burket, Carolyn N. Vann, Robert R. Pinger, Clare L. Chatot, and Fresia E.
Steiner . . . . 653
Role of Anopheles quadrimaculatus and Coquillettidia perturbans (Diptera: Culicidae) in
the Transmission Cycle of Cache Valley Virus (Bunyaviridae: Bunyavirus) in the Midwest,
U.S.A.
Carina G. M. Blackmore, Mark S. Blackmore, and Paul R. Grimstad . . . . 660
Overcrowding of Culex sitiens (Diptera: Culicidae) Larvae: Population Regulation by
Chemical Factors or Mechanical Interference.
Derek Roberts . . . . 665
Effect of Salt Concentration in Larval Rearing Water on Susceptibility of Aedes
Mosquitoes (Diptera: Culicidae) to Eastern Equine and Venezuelan Equine Encephalitis
Viruses.
Michael J. Turell . . . . 670
Development of Alouattamyia baeri (Diptera: Oestridae) from Howler Monkeys (Primates:
Cebidae) on Barro Colorado Island, Panama.
Douglas D. Colwell and Katharine Milton . . . . 674
Measurement of Flight Tone Differentiates Among Members of the Anopheles gambiae
Species Complex (Diptera: Culicidae).
William G. Brogdon . . . . 681
Honeydew Sugars in Wild-Caught Female Deer Flies (Diptera: Tabanidae).
Trevor A. Janzen and Fiona F. Hunter . . . . 685
Laboratory and Field Evaluation of the Repellents Deet, CIC-4, and AI3-37220 Against
Anopheles farauti (Diptera: Culicidae) in Australia.
S. P. Frances, R. D. Cooper, and A. W. Sweeney . . . . 690
Effects of Temperature on Sarcophaga haemorrhoidalis (Diptera: Sarcophagidae)
Development.
Jason H. Byrd and Jerry F. Butler . . . . 694
Field Evaluation of Mesocyclops longisetus (Copepoda: Cyclopoidea) for the Control of
Larval Aedes aegypti (Diptera Culicidae) in Northeastern Mexico.
Norma Gorrochotegui-Escalante, Ildefonso Fernandez-Salas, and Hector Gomez-Dantes . . . .
699
Seasonal Colonization and Decomposition of Rat Carrion in Water and on Land in an Open
Field in South Carolina.
Jeffery K. Tomberlin and Peter H. Adler . . . . 704
Screening of Haematobia irritans irritans (Diptera: Muscidae) Populations for
Pyrethroid Resistance-Associated Sodium Channel Gene Mutations by Using a Polymerase Chain
Reaction Assay.
Felix D. Guerrero, Sidney E. Kunz, and Diane Kammlah . . . . 710
Relative Fitness of Three Organophosphate-Resistant Strains of Culex pipiens pallens
(Diptera: Culicidae).
Wang Jinfu, Lu Shaohong, Chen Rui, and Wang Lingling . . . . 716
Mode of Action of Lufenuron on Larval Cat Fleas (Siphonaptera: Pulicidae).
Susan R. Dean, Roger W. Meola, Shirlee M. Meola, Helga Sittertz-Bhatkar, and Rudolf
Schenker . . . . 720
Effects of Cold Stress on Survival and Reproduction of Haematobia irritans (Diptera:
Muscidae).
Stanley R. Jones and Sidney E. Kunz . . . . 725
Taxonomic Review of Cotingacola (Phthiraptera: Philopteridae) from the Cotingas
(Passeriformes: Tyrannidae), with Descriptions of Two New Species.
Dale H. Clayton and Roger D. Price . . . . 732
Population Parameters of Triatoma spinolai (Heteroptera: Reduviidae) Under Different
Environmental Conditions and Densities.
Mildred J. Ehrenfeld, Mauricio Canals, and Pedro E. Cattan . . . . 740
Determination of Sample Sizes for the Estimation of Onchocerca volvulus (Filarioidea:
Onchocercidae) Infection Rates in Biting Populations of Simulium ochraceum s.l. (Diptera:
Simuliidae) and Its Application to Ivermectin Control Programs.
Mara-Gloria Basez, Mario Alberto Rodrguez-Prez, Filiberto Reyes-Villanueva, Richard C.
Collins, and Mario Henry Rodrguez . . . . 745
Surveillance for Arthropod-Borne Viral Activity in Nebraska, 1994-1995.
Thomas E. Janousek and Wayne L. Kramer . . . . 758
Seasonal Changes in Abundance and Gonotrophic Age of Host-Seeking Tabanidae (Diptera)
from a Subarctic Labrador Peatland.
Paul E. K. Mcelligott and David J. Lewis . . . . 763
Sequence Heterogeneity in Copia-like Retrotransposons in Anopheles (Diptera: Culicidae)
in Thailand.
Pornpimol Rongnoparut, Nuntaree Sirichotpakorn, Rampa Rattanarithikul, and Kenneth J.
Linthicum . . . . 771
Cuticular Hydrocarbon Composition Analysis for Taxonomic Differentiation of
Phlebotomine Sandfly Species (Diptera: Psychodidae) in Kenya.
Hassane Mahamat and Ahmed Hassanali . . . . 778
Oviposition Attraction and Repellency of Aedes aegypti (Diptera: Culicidae) to Waters
from Conspecific Larvae Subjected to Crowding, Confinement, Starvation, or Infection.
Nayer Zahiri and Manfred E. Rau . . . . 782
Morphology and Development of Anaplasma marginale (Rickettsiales: Anaplasmataceae) in
Cultured Ixodes scapularis (Acari: Ixodidae) Cells.
Edmour F. Blouin and Katherine M. Kocan . . . . 788
Mortality of Horn Fly (Diptera: Muscidae) Larvae in Bovine Dung Supplemented with
Loline Alkaloids from Tall Fescue.
C. T. Dougherty, F. W. Knapp, L. P. Bush, J. E. Maul, and J. Van Willigen . . . . 798
Reservoir Competence of the Meadow Vole (Rodentia: Cricetidae) for the Lyme Disease
Spirochete Borrelia burgdorferi.
Daniel Markowski, Howard S. Ginsberg, Kerwin E. Hyland, and Renjie Hu . . . . 804
Life Table Study of Aedes aegypti (Diptera: Culicidae) in Puerto Rico Fed Only Human
Blood Versus Blood Plus Sugar.
Adriana Costero, John D. Edman, Gary G. Clark, and Thomas W. Scott . . . . 809
Laboratory Studies of Susceptibility and Resistance to Insecticides in Pediculus
capitis (Anoplura; Pediculidae).
M. I. Picollo, C. V. Vassena, A. A. Casadio, J. Massimo, and E. N. Zerba . . . . 814
Culicoides variipennis (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) Complex in Virginia.
E. T. Schmidtmann, F. R. Holbrook, E. Day, T. Taylor, and W. J. Tabachnick . . . . 818
Density Dependence in Larval Aedes albopictus (Diptera: Culicidae).
Cynthia C. Lord . . . . 825
Morphological, Molecular, and Chromosomal Discrimination of Cryptic Anopheles
(Nyssorhynchus) (Diptera: Culicidae) from South America.
L. P. Lounibos, R. C. Wilkerson, J. E. Conn, L. J. Hribar, G. N. Fritz, and J. A.
Danoff-Burg . . . . 830
Effects of Sodium Concentration on Aedes triseriatus (Diptera: Culicidae) and
Microorganisms in Treeholes.
Christopher J. Paradise and William A. Dunson . . . . 839
Comparisons of Rice Field Mosquito (Diptera: Culicidae) Abundance Among Areas with
Different Agricultural Practices in Northern Thailand.
Yoshio Tsuda, Masahiro Takagi, Wannapa Suwonkerd, Akira Sugiyama, and Yoshito Wada . . . .
845
Kinetics and Cross-Species Comparisons of Host Antibody Responses to Lone Star Ticks
and American Dog Ticks (Acari: Ixodidae).
Martin L. Sanders, Gregory E. Glass, Alan L. Scott, and Brian S. Schwartz . . . . 849
Two New Species of Chiggers (Acari: Trombiculidae and Leeuwenhoekiidae) from Iran.
M. Lee Goff and Alireza Saboori . . . . 857
Evaluation of Natural Psoroptes ovis (Acarina: Psoroptidae) Soluble Proteins as
Candidate Vaccine Immunogens.
John H. Pruett, Kevin B. Temeyer, William F. Fisher, Patricia K. Beetham, and Sidney E.
Kunz . . . . 861
Geographic Distribution of Ticks (Acari: Ixodidae) in Michigan, with Emphasis on Ixodes
scapularis and Borrelia burgdorferi.
Edward D. Walker, Mary Grace Stobierski, Melvin L. Poplar, Tracy W. Smith, Alice J.
Murphy, Peter C. Smith, Stephen M. Schmitt, Thomas M. Cooley, and Cynthia M. Kramer . . .
. 872
Taxonomic Study of the Genus Ctenocephalides Stiles & Collins, 1930 (Insecta:
Siphonaptera: Pulicidae) by Using Aedeagus Characters.
Karine Mnier and Jean-Claude Beaucournu . . . . 883