ECOLOGY OF MOSQUITOES - CARRIERS OF PARASITIC DISEASES OF ANIMALS IN CENTRAL YAKUTIA
Ecology of mosquitoes as carriers of pathogens of transmissible diseases in urbanocenosis of Yakutia has not been studied yet. Fauna of mosquitoes in the outskirts of Yakutsk consists of one genus Aedes (Ochlerotatus) including 11 species. The first mosquitoes were observed on the 7 <sup>th</sup> of May on a sunny day, at the temperature of +14.0... +16.0ºC, relative humidity of 49% and wind speed of 1.0 m/s. During the midnight sun (from 10 <sup>th</sup> to 30 <sup>th</sup> of June), under favorable weather conditions the flight of mosquitoes and their attacks are observed all day long with two increases in the number of insects - from 4 to 7 am in the morning, and from 9-10 pm to 2 am in the evening. From mid-July the number of mosquitoes drastically reduces. In August single flights of mosquitoes are observed.