Spindletop Farm (ground level)
Basic information
Sample name: Spindletop Farm (ground level)

Reference: R. T. Trout and G. C. Brown. 2009. Impact of residual insecticide applied to upper story vegetation on resting adult mosquitoes (Diptera: Culicidae). Florida Entomologist 92(1):91-98 [ER 2186]
Geography
Country: United States

State: Kentucky

County: Fayette

Coordinate: 38° 4' N, 84° 28' W
Latlng basis: stated in text

Geography comments: "Kentucky's Mosquito Research Center on Spindletop Farm of Lexington"

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Environment
Habitat: temperate broadleaf/mixed forest

Substrate: ground surface

MAT: 13.0

MAP: 1166.0

Habitat comments: none given
climate data are for the Spindletop Farm Education and Research Center and are from Iqbal et al. (2013, Plant Soil)

Methods
Life forms: mosquitoes

Sites: 2

Sampling methods: no design, baited, light traps

Sample size: 1251 individuals

Years: 2005

Days: 10

Seasons: summer, autumn

Net or trap nights: 0

Basal area status: not applicable

Sampling comments: there were "Two tree lines (~2.5 km apart)... The first tree line was divided into 2 blocks, while the second tree line was divided into 4 blocks... In each plot, 2 weeks before and 8 weeks after treatment, mosquito populations were monitored, totaling 10 sampling weeks (7-VII-7-IX-2005)... populations were monitored weekly with Centers for Disease Control (CDC) miniature light traps... at ground level (1.5 m)" and traps were baited with CO2

Metadata
Sample no: 2216

Contributor no: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2016-08-13 17:16:50

Modified: 2016-12-17 10:28:49

Abundance distribution
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts. Values are logged.
Statistics
11 species
3 singletons
total count 1251
geometric series index: 17.9
Fisher's α: 1.66
geometric series k: 0.5027
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.3771
Shannon's H: 0.794
Good's u: 0.9976
Register
Aedes albopictus 9
Aedes vexans 10
Anopheles punctipennis 3
Anopheles quadrimaculatus 6
Anopheles walkeri 2
Culex erraticus 109
Culex "pipiens/restuans"971
most specimens are presumably pipiens because this is the "prevalent WNV vector"
Culex restuans 138
Ochlerotatus japonicus 1
Ochlerotatus triseriatus 1
Ochlerotatus trivittatus 1