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1 September 2014 Development of a New Mosquito Retention System for the BG-Malaria Trap To Reduce The Damage To Mosquitoes
Moreno S. Rodrigues, Ivoneide M. Silva, Leandro B. Leal, Carlos A. C. Dos Santos, Álvaro E. Eiras
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The BG-Malaria trap was recently modified from the BioGents BG-Sentinel trap to collect Anopheles species, including Anopheles darlingi. However, the captured mosquitoes often lose their hind legs in the collector bag, making them difficult to identify. To develop a new collector system that is capable of maintaining the integrity of the mosquitoes collected in the BG-Malaria trap, we conducted a study in the municipalities of Belém (Pará State [PA]) and Porto Velho (Rondônia State [RO]), Brazil, using carbon dioxide–baited BG-Malaria traps with 4 different mosquito collector systems: standard, no bag, rigid short, and rigid long. Results indicated significant differences among the numbers of mosquitoes captured in the 4 different collectors (P < 0.05). Additionally, significantly fewer insects (P < 0.05) were damaged using the rigid short and rigid long collectors than by using the standard and no-bag collectors. We observed that the longer the insects remained in the collector, the higher the number of damaged insects; this effect was the greatest in the standard collector. The results of this study indicate that rigid long collectors were the best suited for use in the BG-Malaria trap.

2014 by The American Mosquito Control Association, Inc.
Moreno S. Rodrigues, Ivoneide M. Silva, Leandro B. Leal, Carlos A. C. Dos Santos, and Álvaro E. Eiras "Development of a New Mosquito Retention System for the BG-Malaria Trap To Reduce The Damage To Mosquitoes," Journal of the American Mosquito Control Association 30(3), 184-190, (1 September 2014). https://doi.org/10.2987/14-6423R.1
Published: 1 September 2014
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KEYWORDS
AMAZON
malaria
Mosquito monitoring
trap
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