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WAYNE JOHN CRANS 1937–2025 Open

Ary Faraji, Scott C. Crans · 2025

DO IT YOURSELF: EVALUATING COMMERCIAL CO2 REGULATORS FOR SURVEILLANCE NETWORKS USING PRESSURIZED CYLINDERS Open

Jarom Brandow, Kelsey A. Fairbanks, M. Andrew Dewsnup, Gregory S. White, Nathaniel M. Byers , et al. · 2025

Carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) is a universal attractant for monitoring blood-feeding insects, such as mosquitoes. Although dry ice has been the historical benchmark, compressed gas cylinders can be used in tandem with a gas regulator to control C…

Fantastic feasts and where to find them: mosquito (Diptera: Culicidae) sugar feeding and survivorship on endemic flowers of arid scrublands Open

Ella J. Branham, Irvane E. Nelson, Ilia Rochlin, Thomas D. Widmer, Nathaniel M. Byers , et al. · 2025

Comparative resilience and precision of digitized optical counting using ImageJ during routine mosquito (Diptera: Culicidae) sample processing Open

Ayla Faraji, Kelsey A. Fairbanks, Ary Faraji, Christopher S. Bibbs · 2025

Surveillance is integral for the targeted and effective function of integrated vector management. However, the scale of surveillance efforts can be prohibitive on manpower, given the large number of traps set, collected, processed, and enu…

Ancient origin of an urban underground mosquito Open

Yuki Haba, Matthew L. Aardema, María José Afonso, Natasha M. Agramonte, John Albright , et al. · 2025

Understanding how life is adapting to urban environments represents an important challenge in evolutionary biology. Here we investigate a widely cited example of urban adaptation, Culex pipiens form molestus , also known as the London Unde…

Managed honey bees, Apis mellifera (Hymenoptera: Apidae), face greater risk from parasites and pathogens than mosquito control insecticide applications Open

Jenna Crowder, Ilia Rochlin, Christopher S. Bibbs, Emily Pennock, Mike Browning , et al. · 2025

As the primary pollinator for many crops, honey bees (Apis mellifera) are critically important to food production and the agricultural economy. Adult mosquito control is often suspected by the public and commercial beekeepers to harm honey…

A Case Report on Product Rotation to Manage Severe Lysinibacillus sphaericus Resistance in Culex pipiens from Salt Lake City, Utah Open

Christopher S. Bibbs, Raymond Sørensen, Ary Faraji, Gregory S. White · 2024

The Salt Lake City Mosquito Abatement District (SLCMAD) detected a 20,000-fold resistance to Lysinibacillus sphaericus ( Lsph ) in Culex pipiens occurring in catch basins of Salt Lake City during 2016. In response, SLCMAD suspended use of …

Diuresis and α-glucosidase inhibition by erythritol in Aedes aegypti (Diptera: Culicidae) and viability for efficacy against mosquitoes Open

Irvane E. Nelson, Kobi A Baker, Ary Faraji, Gregory S. White, Christopher S. Bibbs · 2024

Do it yourself: 3D-printed miniature CDC trap for adult mosquito (Diptera: Culicidae) surveillance Open

Christopher S. Bibbs, Nadja Reissen, M. Andrew Dewsnup, Raymond Sørensen, Ary Faraji , et al. · 2024

The central component of mosquito and vector surveillance programs globally is the adult mosquito trap, which is intended to collect host-seeking mosquitoes. The miniature CDC trap is a widely distributed trap style in part due to its rela…

Are Adult Mosquito Control Products (Adulticides) Harmful? A Review of the Potential Human Health Impacts from Exposure to Naled and Dichlorvos (DDVP) Open

Daniel Mendoza, Robert K. D. Peterson, Jane A. S. Bonds, Gregory S. White, Ary Faraji · 2023

We performed a thorough systematic review of published literature to determine potential links between human health impacts and naled, a registered adult mosquito control product (adulticide), and its major degradate, dichlorvos (DDVP). A …

Do It Yourself: A Modernized Gravid Trap Design for Mosquito Surveillance Open

M. Andrew Dewsnup, Thomas D. Widmer, Ella J. Branham, Ary Faraji, Gregory S. White , et al. · 2023

Gravid traps have become a common and frequently essential surveillance tool for parous Culex spp. vectors of West Nile virus and other encephalitis-causing pathogens. The recent closing of BioQuip Products Inc., an entomological supply co…

Emerging and lesser-known arboviruses impacting animal and human health Open

Ary Faraji, Goudarz Molaei, Theodore G. Andreadis · 2023

Arboviruses (arthropod-borne viruses) are a class of viral pathogens that are transmitted by arthropod vectors in nature.They are responsible for many vector-borne diseases that continue to plague humans and animals and impact the health o…

Evaluation of an Aerial Application of Duet Hd® Against Aedes dorsalis and Culex tarsalis in Rural Habitats of the Great Salt Lake, Utah Open

Christopher S. Bibbs, Gregory S. White, Ilia Rochlin, Andrew Rivera, Kattie Morris , et al. · 2023

The Salt Lake City Mosquito Abatement District (SLCMAD) has been conducting aerial applications using an organophosphate insecticide against adult mosquitoes for several decades. In order to evaluate a potential rotation product, aerial ap…

Do it yourself: fabricating and evaluating a mosquito (Diptera: Culicidae) blood-feeding device to replace a commercial option Open

M. Andrew Dewsnup, Ary Faraji, Gregory S. White, Christopher S. Bibbs · 2023

Tools for rearing hematophagous insects, such as mosquitoes (Diptera: Culicidae), in an insectary are essential for research and operational evaluations in vector biology and control. There is an abundance of low-cost options for practitio…

AMCA Presidential Address Open

Ary Faraji · 2022

Well, what a long, strange trip it has been! All of us in public health expected a pandemic of sorts sooner or later, but I guess our focus was a bit biased towards a vector-borne pandemic and not a respiratory virus. The coronavirus disea…

Covers Open

Ary Faraji, Nathan D. Burkett‐Cadena, Erik M. Blosser, Lawrence E. Reeves, Uranotaenia Sapphirina , et al. · 2022

Laboratory evaluation of sugar alcohols for control of mosquitoes and other medically important flies Open

Ilia Rochlin, Gregory S. White, Nadja Reissen, Dustin A. Swanson, Lee W. Cohnstaedt , et al. · 2022

Insecticide application for vector control is the most controversial component of a public health program due to concerns about environmental and human health safety. One approach to overcome this challenge is the use of environmentally be…

Origins of high latitude introductions of Aedes aegypti to Nebraska and Utah during 2019 Open

Andrea Gloria‐Soria, Ary Faraji, Jeff Hamik, Gregory S. White, Shanon Amsberry , et al. · 2022

Aedes aegypti (L.), the yellow fever mosquito, is also an important vector of dengue and Zika viruses, and an invasive species in North America. Aedes aegypti inhabits tropical and sub-tropical areas of the world and in North America is pr…

Effects of aerial adulticiding for mosquito management on nontarget insects: A Bayesian and community ecology approach Open

Ilia Rochlin, G. White, Nadja Reissen, Tarun Kumar Martheswaran, Ary Faraji · 2022

Diseases transmitted by mosquitoes are emerging across the globe in a broad range of urbanized, rural, and natural environments inhabited by their vector species. Because applications of insecticides remain the most effective, and often th…

Do tigers hunt during the day? Diel activity of the Asian tiger mosquito, Aedes albopictus (Diptera: Culicidae), in urban and suburban habitats of North America Open

Işık Ünlü, Ary Faraji, Nicholas Indelicato, James McNelly · 2021

Background Aedes ( Stegomyia ) albopictus (Skuse) impacts human outdoor activity because of its aggressive biting behavior, and as a major vector of mosquito-borne diseases, it is also of public health importance. Although most mosquito sp…

Heterodissemination: precision insecticide delivery to mosquito larval habitats by cohabiting vertebrates Open

Işık Ünlü, Ary Faraji, Yi Wang, Ilia Rochlin, Randy Gaugler · 2021

Conventional larvicide delivery strategies originally developed for permanent and floodwater mosquitoes have proved suboptimal in the small, scattered, and cryptic larval habitats preferred by container-inhabiting Aedes mosquitoes. New met…

Toys or Tools? Utilization of Unmanned Aerial Systems in Mosquito and Vector Control Programs Open

Ary Faraji, Eric J. Haas-Stapleton, Brad Sorensen, Marty Scholl, Gary Goodman , et al. · 2021

Organized mosquito control programs (MCP) in the United States have been protecting public health since the early 1900s. These programs utilize integrated mosquito management for surveillance and control measures to enhance quality of life…

Do tigers hunt during the day? Diel Activity of the Asian tiger mosquito,<i>Aedes albopictus</i>(Diptera: Culicidae), in Urban and Suburban Habitats of North America Open

Işık Ünlü, Ary Faraji, Nicholas Indelicato, James McNelly · 2021

Aedes ( Stegomyia ) albopictus (Skuse) impacts human outdoor activity because of its aggressive biting behavior, and as a major vector of mosquito-borne diseases, it is also of public health importance. Although most mosquito species exhib…

American Mosquito Control Association Interim Board of Directors Meeting in Salt Lake City, Utah—November 12, 2020 Open

Ary Faraji, Mark S. Breidenbaugh, Dennis Wallette, Jason Kinley, Gary Hatch , et al. · 2021

American Mosquito Control Association Board of Directors Meeting via online platform—March 20, 2020 Open

Jason Kinley, Ary Faraji, Mark S. Breidenbaugh, William Randolph Walton, Gary Hatch , et al. · 2021

No Evidence That Salt Water Ingestion Kills Adult Mosquitoes (Diptera: Culicidae) Open

Donald Yee, Catherine L. Dean, Cameron Webb, Jennifer A. Henke, Gabriela Perezchica-Harvey , et al. · 2020

Various products and insecticides are available that purport to reduce wild populations of adult mosquitoes. Recently, several manufacturers and general public comments on the internet have promoted devices that claim that ingestion of sal…

Trap Comparison for Surveillance of the Western Tree Hole Mosquito, Aedes sierrensis (Diptera: Culicidae) Open

Luis Fernando Chaves, Nadja Reissen, Gregory S. White, Scott Gordon, Ary Faraji · 2020

The western tree hole mosquito, Aedes sierrensis (Ludlow), is a common nuisance mosquito and vector of Dirofilaria immitis (Leidy), the etiologic agent of dog heartworm, in western North America. Here, we compare weekly mosquito collection…

Truck‐mounted area‐wide applications of larvicides and adulticides for extended suppression of adult <i>Aedes albopictus</i> Open

Işık Ünlü, Ary Faraji, Greg Williams, Sébastien Marcombe, Dina M. Fonseca , et al. · 2018

BACKGROUND Given the lack of vaccines for most vector‐borne diseases, vector control is often the primary option for disease control. Aedes albopictus are difficult to control because the immatures primarily develop in containers ubiquitou…

A Survey of the Mosquitoes of Kosrae State, Federated States of Micronesia, 2016 Open

Dominic Rose, Marvin S. Godsey, Ary Faraji, Erik M. Ostrum, Harry M. Savage · 2018

In response to an outbreak of Zika virus that started in February 2016 on Kosrae Island, Kosrae State, Federated States of Micronesia, we conducted entomological investigations, including a survey to characterize the mosquito fauna on Kosr…

Zika Virus Infection in Patient with No Known Risk Factors, Utah, USA, 2016 Open

Elisabeth Krow‐Lucal, Shannon Novosad, Angela Dunn, Carolyn Brent, Harry M. Savage , et al. · 2017

In 2016, Zika virus disease developed in a man (patient A) who had no known risk factors beyond caring for a relative who died of this disease (index patient). We investigated the source of infection for patient A by surveying other family…

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