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Title The response of Culex quinquefasciatus (Diptera: Culicidae)to traps baited with carbon dioxide, 1-octen-3-ol, acetone, butyric acid and human foot odour in Tanzania
Full text http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/cabi/ber/2000/00000090/00000002/art00007
Date 2000
Author(s) Mboera, L.E.G.; Takken, W.; Sambu, E.Z.
Abstract The responses of Culex quinquefasciatus Say to traps baited with carbon dioxide, 1-octen-3-ol, acetone, butyric acid and human foot odour were studied in the field in Muheza, north-east Tanzania using Counterflow Geometry (CFG) and Centers for Disease Control (CDC) traps. It was found that significantly more C. quinquefasciatusresponded to foot odour collected on nylon stockings than to clean nylon stockings (P < 0.05). Significantly more mosquitoes were caught in a CFG trap baited with carbon dioxide than in traps with either human foot odour, acetone or butyric acid. It was also found that in an outdoor situation a carbon dioxide baited CDC unlit trap collected over 12 times more C. quinquefasciatus than an unbaited CDC unlit trap and nine times more mosquitoes than CDC traps baited with 1-octen-3-ol alone (P < 0.05). The number of mosquitoes caught in a CDC trap baited with 1-octen-3-ol did not differ significantly from that of the unbaited CDC trap (P > 0.05). These results indicate that the Afrotropical C. quinquefasciatusrespond significantly better to traps baited with carbon dioxide than to either octenol, acetone or butyric acid, and that human foot odour contains stimuli to which C. quinquefasciatus is attracted under field conditions.
Subject(s) Laboratorium voor Entomologie
Language en
Relation http://library.wur.nl/WebQuery/wurpubs/65506
Type of publication Article/Letter to editor
Format unknown/unknown
Source Bulletin of Entomological Research 90 (2000)
Rights Wageningen UR
Repository Wageningen - University of Wageningen
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