Field studies on the potential of butanone, carbon dioxide, honey extract, l‐octen‐3‐ol, L‐lactic acid and phenols as attractants for mosquitoes*
- 1 October 1990
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Medical and Veterinary Entomology
- Vol. 4 (4) , 383-391
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2915.1990.tb00455.x
Abstract
Various combinations of six candidate attractants: butanone, carbon dioxide (CO2), honey, ocetenol, lactic acid and mixed phenols were tested against natural populations of mosquitos in Everglades National Park, Florida, U.S.A., using unlighted CDC-baited traps. With few exceptions, the attractancy of these candidate compounds to mosquitoes, when used alone, was less than that of CO2 alone. The exceptions were that octenol and honey extract alone attracted larger numbers of Coquillettidia perturbans (Walker). Addition of lactic acid and/or octenol to CO2 increased trap collections of Aedes taeniorhynchus (Wiedemann), Anopheles atropos D. and K., and A. crucians Wiedemann by 1.4-13.8 times. Culex nigripalpus Theobald collections were increased 2.7 times by the addition of lactic acid, while the addition of octenol produced mixed results. Whereas the addition of lactic acid reduced collections of Cx (Melanoconion) spp., the addition of octenol generally increased collections. The opposite happened for Wyeomyia mitchellii (Theobald). For the biting midge, Culicoides furens (Poey), octenol (1.6-23.4 .times.) and phenol (2.7 .times.) alone attracted larger numbers, and lactic acid alone attracted approximately the same numbers as CO2 alone. The combinations octenol + phenol and octenol + 200 ml/min CO2 increased C. furens collections c. 100 times over CO2 alone. The combination of octenol + CO2 increased (1.6.times.) collections of the tabanid Diachlorus ferrugatus (Fabricius). Butananone appeared to decrease the trap collections of all species when combined with CO2 or octenol + CO2.Keywords
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