LABORATORY EVALUATION OF MOSQUITO TRAPS BAITED WITH A SYNTHETIC HUMAN ODOR BLEND TO CAPTURE AEDES AEGYPTI
- 1 June 2005
- journal article
- Published by American Mosquito Control Association in Journal of the American Mosquito Control Association
- Vol. 21 (2) , 229-233
- https://doi.org/10.2987/8756-971x(2005)21[229:leomtb]2.0.co;2
Abstract
A synthetic blend of chemicals comprising volatiles released by the human body has been shown to be an effective attractant for female Aedes aegypti in olfactometer bioassays with laboratory-reared mosquitoes. We report the laboratory evaluation of Ae. aegypti response to a synthetic blend tested with 4 types of mosquito traps (CDC model 512, CDC model 1012, CFG, and Fay-Prince traps). Aedes aegypti females were attracted significantly by the blend. The higher release rate of attractant (320.2 +/- 10.71 mg/h) more efficiently attracted mosquitoes than the lower release rate (42.0 +/- 2.3 mg/h). Although both the Fay-Prince and CFG traps caught higher number of mosquitoes than the other traps, only the CFG trap caught a statistically significant greater number of mosquitoes. The results suggest that the synthetic blend is effective in attracting Ae. aegypti females under controlled laboratory conditions (i.e., a closed system). Further studies are needed to evaluate the efficacy of this blend in baited traps under field conditions.Keywords
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