Mosquito borne diseases are of the most deadly and infectious known causing millions of deaths every year. Mosquitoes survive in various climates and are present all over the world. It is important to have an up to date record on their movement and distribution as this will allow for scientists and the public to plan [...]
Due to the decrease in governmental mosquito control programs resulting from the state government budget cuts in 2014, it was seen that many homeowners in North Carolina spent their money to control household level mosquito-related issues. Researchers Stephanie Richards, Jo Anne Balanay, Brian Byrd, Michael Reiskind and Diane Styers noted that factors affecting mosquito control [...]
Richards S.L., Balanay J.G, White A.V., Hope J., Vandock K., Byrd B.D., Reiskind M.H. . 2017. Insecticide Susceptibility Screening Against Culex and Aedes (Diptera: Culicidae) Mosquitoes From the United States. Journal of Medical Entomology 55(2) 398–407 doi: 10.1093/jme/tjx198 View PDF
Reiskind M.H. and Hopperstad K.A. 2017. Surveillance for Immature Mosquitoes in Windshield Wash Basins at Gas Stations. Journal of Medical Entomology 54(6), 2017, 1775–1777 doi: 10.1093/jme/tjx129 View PDF
K.A. Hopperstad and Reiskind M.H. 2016. Recent Changes in the Local Distribution of Aedes aegypti (Diptera: Culicidae) in South Florida, USA. Journal of Medical Entomology 53(4), 836–842 doi: 10.1093/jme/tjw050 View PDF
De Jesus C.A. and Reiskind M.H. 2016. The importance of male body size on sperm uptake and usage, and female fecundity in Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus. De Jesus and Reiskind Parasites & Vectors 9:447 DOI 10.1186/s13071-016-1734-8 View PDF
Reiskind M.H. , Griffin R.H., Janairo M.S., and Hopperstad K.A. 2017. Mosquitoes of field and forest: the scale of habitat segregation in a diverse mosquito assemblage. Medical and Veterinary Entomology 31, 44–54 doi: 10.1111/mve.12193 View PDF
Burford Reiskind M.O., Coyle K., Daniels H.V., Labadie P., Reiskind M.H., Roberts N.B., Roberts R.B., Schaff J., and Vargo E.L. 2016. Development of a universal double-digest RAD sequencing approach for a group of nonmodel, ecologically and economically important insect and fish taxa. Molecular Ecology Resources 16, 1303–1314, DOI: 10.1111/1755-0998.12527. View PDF
Richards S.L., Balanay J.G, Byrd B.D, Reiskind M.H. and Styers D.M. 2017. Regional Survey of Mosquito Control Knowledge and Usage in North Carolina. Journal of the American Control Mosquito Association 33(4):331–339. View PDF
Cammack J.A., Reiskind M.H. , Guisewite L.M., Denning S.S., Watson D.W. Quantifying pteridines in the heads of blow flies (Diptera: Calliphoridae): Application for forensic entomology. Forensic Science International , DOI: 10.1016/j.forsciint. View PDF