Sample A: Cover Page of Thesis, Project, or Dissertation Proposal

Table 4.5. Virginia competent vector mosquito surveillance statistics by mosquito species
collected for 2000-2006.
Species Records b
#
Mosquitoes a
#
Trap
Sites
94
# Trap
Nights
# Mosquitoes
per Trap
Night
Mean #
Mosquito
es
Abundanc
e Index c
Ae. albopictus 5638 102797 1704 19601 5.24 13.77 0.49
Ae. canadensis 1655 176114 367 6772 26.01 15.50 2.47
Ae. sollicitans 248 6772 83 1366 4.96 8.91 0.47
Ae. 443 26695 156 2110 12.65 9.82 1.20
taeniorhynchus
Ae. triseriatus 2797 75220 893 10998 6.84 10.15 0.65
Ae. vexans 5062 111321 1081 19976 5.57 12.67 0.53
Cx.. pipiens 4074 180325 1344 14286 12.62 20.28 1.20
Cx. 1603 108893 533 4108 26.51 27.12 2.51
pipiens/restuans d
Cx. restuans 4465 198140 1068 16558 11.97 17.28 1.13
Cx. salinarius 3781 181854 810 14997 12.13 15.78 1.15
a The number of mosquitoes is number of females trapped.
b A record is the monthly mean number of mosquitoes of a competent vector species trapped at a given site.
c The abundance indices were calculated using the following equation: [(number of female mosquitoes of a given
species collected) / (total number of female mosquitoes collected] / [(number of trap nights the species was collected) /
(total number of trap nights)].
d For a significant number of trap records, the species was recorded as Cx. pipiens/restuans; this designation was used
for Cx. pipiens and Cx. restuans collections which could not be morphologically distinguished. These records were
included in competent vector group analyses because both species are considered potential competent vectors of RVF
virus for this study.