Culex

How To Use Culex In A Sentence

• Nothing could have seemed less useful than the study of mosquitoes, the differentiation of the different species, their mode of life, etc., and yet without this knowledge discoveries so beneficial and of such far-reaching importance to the whole human race as that of the cause and mode of transmission of malaria and yellow fever would have been impossible; for it could easily have been shown that the ordinary _culex_ mosquito played no rôle. Disease and Its Causes
• The interview could hardly have ended more auspiciously for Tito, and as he walked out at the Porta Pinti that he might laugh a little at his ease over the affair of the _culex_, he felt that fortune could hardly mean to turn her back on him again at present, since she had taken him by the hand in this decided way. Romola
• The institute breeds aedes, anopheles and culex mosquitoes used in research toward development of repellents, drugs and vaccines to protect service members from such diseases as dengue fever, malaria and encephalitis.
• This difference between mosquito (little fly, simulium) and zancudo (gnat, culex) exists in all the Spanish colonies. Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America
• And Tito, who had just been looking into the ` Miscellanea, 'found so much to say that was agreeable to the secretary -- he would have done so from the mere disposition to please, without further motive -- that he showed himself quite worthy to be made a judge in the notable correspondence concerning the _culex_. Romola
• Clarke monitors whether Culex mosquito populations are on the rise through traps and analyzes and tests standing water to see when and if larvacide should be used. News
• The Toxo mosquito, when in a larvae state, has the nature to feed on the comparatively smaller sized anopheles and culex larvae.
• Politian had used the freedom of a friend, and pleasantly, in the form of a Latin epigram, corrected the mistake of Scala in making the _culex_ (an insect too well-known on the banks of the Arno) of the inferior or feminine gender. Romola
• The virus occurs naturally in many birds and is transmitted by Culex mosquitoes.
• The goal of this abatement crew near Chicago is to prevent larvae from growing into adult mosquitoes, specifically the culex pipians, the common carrier of West Nile virus that infected more than 4,000 people in the U.S. last year. CNN Transcript Jul 8, 2003