Jennifer A Henke's research while affiliated with Coachella Valley Mosquito And Vector Control District and other places

... The results of the model showed that the mean temperature of warmest quarter (bio10), mean temperature of coldest quarter (bio11), precipitation of driest month (bio14), and human influence index (Hii) were the environmental variables with the highest contribution to the potential distribution of S. invicta in China. This finding shows that temperature and precipitation are the main factors affecting the distribution pattern of S. invicta, while the human influence index is also important [45,46]. ...

... These detections coincided with an outbreak of 19 human cases of SLEV disease in Arizona [21]. Genetic analyses showed that the closest archived sequences to the re-emerged strain of SLEV were from Argentina and although the virus was undetected until the 2015 outbreak, it likely was introduced in 2013 and was found in an archived mosquito pool collected in Maricopa County, Arizona, in 2014 [22]. Subsequently, from 2016 through 2020, 16 more counties in southern and central California also detected SLEV activity via mosquitoes, sentinel chickens, and/or reported human cases. ...

... Anopheles crucians and An. quadrimaculatus have a high tolerance to brackish water and other environmental conditions that are otherwise detrimental to other mosquito species [34,35]. Our spatial analysis reveals the existence of highly conducive environments, characterized by an overabundance of resources supporting the proliferation of An. crucians and An. ...

... Mosquito species are composed of an array of locally adapted populations across their respective ranges. Substantial genetic variation exists in mosquito species (Fouet et al., 2017;Holt et al., 2002;Kang et al., 2021;Maffey et al., 2020;Pless et al., 2020;Yurchenko et al., 2020) and at fine-spatial scales (Ayala et al., 2020;Carvajal et al., 2020;Gutiérrez et al., 2010;Jasper et al., 2019;Matowo et al., 2019), with significant consequences for transmission potential (Azar et al., 2017;Palmer et al., 2018;Vega-Rúa et al., 2020). This genetic variation can interact with local environmental conditions to impact the capacity of mosquito vectors to transmit human pathogens (e.g., dengue; Gloria-Soria et al. (2017) and chikungunya; Zouache et al. (2014)). ...

... Even aerial application of herbicides such as Agent Orange, which became widespread during the Vietnam War is known (Ginevan et al., 2009). All of these activities can contribute to organic pollutant contamination (Britch et al., 2020). Another environmental impact may be related to the construction of ammunition storage facilities where explosives were previously manufactured and processed. ...

... /2022 Viral transmission is particularly relevant in the light of some of these species being invasive pest species that may spread their diseases to the native ant fauna, similar to the welldescribed viral spillover from managed honeybees to the native bees and bumblebees (Fürst et al., 2014;McMahon et al., 2015). On the other hand, the potential exists for viruses to be used as effective biocontrol measures for invasive species (Oi et al., 2015;Oi et al., 2019), if their host specificity is narrow. Even if our study more than doubled the number of known ant viruses, we expect that our knowledge today represents only a minute fraction of the true viral diversity associated with the more than 15,000 ant species. ...

... Predictive models of human WNV cases tend to analyze patterns of incidence at regional to country scales, often in the absence of mosquito data as an important predictor. At these scales, multiple research objectives have driven research into predicting WNV risk to humans, including determining climate factors that increase seasonal risk (10, 11), exploring range expansions under climate change scenarios (12), forecasting incidence at a county-level in real-time (13,14), and developing methodologies that treat WNV clinical incidence as a probabilistic rather than deterministic process (15, 16). Predictive studies of mosquito WNV activity tend to be local, meaning they focus on examining the factors that in uence mosquito infection rates at speci c sites in an area typically no larger than a city or county (17)(18)(19)(20). ...

... larvae for a period of 7-35 days. [18,19] Spinosad acts like a contact poison and affects the nervous system causing paralysis and death. Natular™, a larvicide product, being marketed in the USA and Mexico uses spinosad at concentrations up to 1.6 ppm for community control of mosquito-borne illnesses. ...

... Entomopathogenic fungi are also alternative tools to chemical insecticides (Noskov et al. 2019), mainly the genera Beauveria and Metarhizium (Mannino et al. 2019). Commercial fungal formulations of Cx. quinquefasciatus control are available in California, but their persistence decreases considerably one week after application (Popko et al. 2018). In Aedes control, the promising results are mostly observed in adult insects, with reduced performance against eggs, larvae, and pupa (Cabral et al. 2020;Choi et al. 2020;Prado et al. 2020;Shoukat et al. 2020). ...