A recent DNA study of the blood consumed by 300 mosquitoes in Connecticut over the past three years found that 40% fed on American robins, while only 1% fed on American crows, a known host of West Nile virus (WNV). Theodore Andreadis, MS, PhD, from the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station, led the study.
Some people now wonder if crows are still major factors in WNV
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