Comparison of Efficiency of BG-Sentinel Traps Baited with Mice, Mouse-Litter, and CO2 Lures for Field Sampling of Male and Female Aedes albopictus Mosquitoes
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Materials and Methods
2.1. Study Area
2.2. Trap Descriptions
2.3. Mosquito Sampling
2.4. Statistics
2.5. Ethics Statement
3. Results
3.1. General Observations
3.2. Efficiency of Ae. albopictus Trapping According to the Attractants
4. Discussion
5. Conclusions
Acknowledgments
Author Contributions
Conflicts of Interest
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Le Goff, G.; Damiens, D.; Ruttee, A.-H.; Payet, L.; Lebon, C.; Dehecq, J.-S.; Geier, M.; Gouagna, L.-C. Comparison of Efficiency of BG-Sentinel Traps Baited with Mice, Mouse-Litter, and CO2 Lures for Field Sampling of Male and Female Aedes albopictus Mosquitoes. Insects 2017, 8, 95. https://doi.org/10.3390/insects8030095
Le Goff G, Damiens D, Ruttee A-H, Payet L, Lebon C, Dehecq J-S, Geier M, Gouagna L-C. Comparison of Efficiency of BG-Sentinel Traps Baited with Mice, Mouse-Litter, and CO2 Lures for Field Sampling of Male and Female Aedes albopictus Mosquitoes. Insects. 2017; 8(3):95. https://doi.org/10.3390/insects8030095
Chicago/Turabian StyleLe Goff, Gilbert, David Damiens, Abdoul-Hamid Ruttee, Laurent Payet, Cyrille Lebon, Jean-Sébastien Dehecq, Martin Geier, and Louis-Clément Gouagna. 2017. "Comparison of Efficiency of BG-Sentinel Traps Baited with Mice, Mouse-Litter, and CO2 Lures for Field Sampling of Male and Female Aedes albopictus Mosquitoes" Insects 8, no. 3: 95. https://doi.org/10.3390/insects8030095