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Development of a New Mosquito Retention System for the BG-Malaria Trap To Reduce The Damage To Mosquitoes
2014; American Mosquito Control Association; Volume: 30; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês
10.2987/14-6423r.1
ISSN1943-6270
AutoresMoreno S. Rodrigues, Ivoneide Maria da Silva, Leandro Barros Leal, Carlos Antônio Costa dos Santos, Álvaro Eduardo Eiras,
Tópico(s)Insect Pest Control Strategies
ResumoThe 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.
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