Mosquitoes in small urban spaces: identification of blood meals and flight distances of engorged females in the southern Great Plains of the United States
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Vector-borne disease transmission can only occur when host(s), vector(s), and pathogen(s) interact in a given environment. While many studies have focused on these interactions in large urban areas, there is a need for habitat-focused studies in small urban areas where human populations are often close to wildlife and livestock. The aim of the current study was to identify the bloodmeal sources of mosquitoes in a small urban area in the southern Great Plains of the United States. Using 2 trap types, bloodmeals from 12 different hosts were detected, and the most frequently detected bloodmeal hosts were white-tailed deer, cow, and horse. The known locations of livestock at each site made it possible to identify the nearest location where mosquitoes could have fed on cows, horses, and alpacas, and we demonstrated that mosquitoes could fly distances between 200 m and 1.2 km from the bloodmeal host to the resting trap location within 30 h after taking blood. This study highlights the opportunities that are available within small urban areas to discover important host-vector relationships.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".