What is Culex?
[[File:Culex mosquito female 2.jpg|thumb|right|250px|{{Center|Photograph of a female Culex mosquito}}]] '''''Culex''''' (also called the common house mosquito) is a [[genus]] of [[mosquito]]es.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.tinymosquito.com/culex.html |title=Dangers of the Culex Mosquito |publisher=Tiny Mosquito |access-date=24 November 2015}}</ref> It includes several [[species]] of mosquitoes that [[Vector (epidemiology)|vector]] (carry and transmit) one or more important [[disease]]s between [[bird]]s, [[human]]s and other [[animal]]s. The diseases they vector include [[West Nile virus]],<ref>{{cite web|author=Goudarz Molaei|last2=Theodore G. Andreadis|last3=Philip M. Armstrong|display-authors=etal|date=3 March 2006|title=Host Feeding Patterns of Culex Mosquitoes and West Nile Virus Transmission, Northeastern United States|url=http://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/12/3/05-1004_article|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151016201536/http://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/12/3/05-1004_article|archive-date=16 October 2015|access-date=24 November 2015|website=Volume 12, Number EID Journal|publisher=Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)}}</ref> as well as [[arbovirus]] and [[filariasis]] infections.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.vectorbase.org/organisms/culex-quinquefasciatus |title=Culex quinquefasciatus |publisher=VectorBase |access-date=24 November 2015 |archive-date=15 February 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160215140841/https://www.vectorbase.org/organisms/culex-quinquefasciatus |url-status=dead }}</ref> A connection between Culex mosquitoes and [[malaria]] was first shown by [[Major]] [[Ronald Ross]] of the [[British Army]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.medicalmuseum.mil/index.cfm?p=about.directors.reed |title=U.S. Army Maj. Walter Reed |publisher=National Museum of Health and Medicine |access-date=24 November 2015 |archive-date=6 March 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160306210453/http://www.medicalmuseum.mil/index.cfm?p=about.directors.reed |url-st