Field experiments with a wind tunnel on the flight speed of some west African mosquitoes (Diptera: Culicidae)
- 1 March 1981
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Bulletin of Entomological Research
- Vol. 71 (1) , 65-70
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0007485300051038
Abstract
An open wind tunnel, down which air was blown from over a bait animal, was used in the field in the Gambia to measure the flight speed of host-seeking mosquitoes. Insects were trapped on an electrocuting grid fitted halfway up the tunnel. As the speed of air movement through the electrocuting grid was increased from 04 m/s. At air speeds lower than 048 m/s.Keywords
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