Maximising mosquito collections from barrier screens: the impacts of physical design and operation parameters.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Traditional methods for collecting outdoor resting mosquitoes are generally inefficient with relatively low numbers caught per unit effort. The barrier screen, designed to intercept mosquitoes as they fly between areas where blood meals are obtained and oviposition sites where eggs are laid, was developed in 2013 as a novel method of sampling outdoor mosquito populations. Barrier screens do not use an odorant lure and are thus a non-mechanical, simple, low maintenance and passive sampling method for use, even in isolated locations.

Methods

To maximise mosquito collections from barrier screens, multiple Latin square 3 × 3 experiments were conducted in Smithfield, Queensland, Australia. Parameters of barrier screens were varied including the effects of construction

SUBMITTER: Pollard EJM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6332603 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature