Story: Sandflies and mosquitoes

More links and websites

• Exotic and endemic mosquitoes in New Zealand as potential arbovirus vectors

  A 1996 Ministry of Health paper on the potential for mosquitoes in New Zealand to carry and transmit viral diseases (PDF, 297 KB).

• Mosquitoes and mosquito repellents: a clinician's guide

  A 1998 paper from the Annals of Internal Medicine outlining research on mosquito repellents.

• Sandflies (blackflies)

  Information from Landcare Research on New Zealand’s sandflies.

More suggestions and sources

• Belkin, John. Mosquito studies (Diptera, Culicidae). VII. The Culicidae of New Zealand. Ann Arbor: American Entomological Institute,1968.
• Laird, Marshall. New Zealand’s mosquito fauna in 1995: history and status. Wellington: Ministry of Health, 1996.
• Orr, Marjorie. Those sandflies. Whatamango Bay: Cape Catley, 1996.