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1 June 2011 A Wire-Frame Shelter for Collecting Resting Mosquitoes
NATHAN D. BURKETT-CADENA
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Abstract

Collecting resting mosquitoes is important for studies of the bloodfeeding patterns of medically important mosquitoes. We developed a novel resting shelter, called a wire-frame resting shelter, for collecting resting mosquitoes and evaluated its efficacy at sites in Alabama and the Florida Panhandle. The shelter is made of a 1 × 2-m section of galvanized metal-wire field fencing rolled into a cylinder and placed inside a heavy-duty black plastic bag. In the field evaluation, the wire-frame shelters were comparable to other artificial resting shelters (trash cans) in the number of Culex (Melanoconion) females collected. While a number of other resting shelter designs are available, the wire-frame shelter has a number of beneficial attributes, including being easily assembled in the field, lightweight, inexpensive, and easily modified.

NATHAN D. BURKETT-CADENA "A Wire-Frame Shelter for Collecting Resting Mosquitoes," Journal of the American Mosquito Control Association 27(2), 153-155, (1 June 2011). https://doi.org/10.2987/10-6076.1
Published: 1 June 2011
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KEYWORDS
Culex erraticus
Culex peccator
Resting mosquitoes
Resting shelter
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