Reproduced from Wing Beats of the AMCA, the official publication of the Florida Mosquito Control Association. Apperson, C. 1991. The black salt marsh mosquito, Aedes taeniorhynchus Wing Beats, Vol. The black salt marsh mosquito is a severe biter of man and livestock along the southern coasts from North Carolina to Florida and in the Caribbean.
Unchecked populations can have a major economic impact.
While capable of transmitting eastern equine encephalitis and St. Louis encephalitis in the laboratory, it is not a major vector of these diseases in nature. It is, however, an important natural vector of dog heartworm and Venezuelan equine encephalitis. The black salt marsh mosquito is found on the coastal plains from Massachusetts to Texas, in California along the Pacific Coast and in the Caribbean. It is more abundant in the south. It also breeds on dredge disposal islands along the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway.