Word: nigripalpus
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...them to take seed from their lips. At downtown Mirror Lake last week, old folks were feeding pigeons, house sparrows, mockingbirds and grackles. while laughing gulls, ducks and herons splashed in and out of the water. There, in a half-hour, health workers easily caught 70 mosquitoes (Culex nigripalpus, one of the species now known to carry SLE virus) in a small trap. At another lake, irate residents stoned health department workers who were trying to trap ducks merely to draw a blood specimen for virus testing...
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