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Provedor de dados: | 92
País: | Brazil
Título: | Improvement of a test-chamber for behavioral studies on adult females of Aedes aegypti (Linnaeus) (Diptera, Culicidae)
Autores: | Cabrini,Isaías; Andrade,Carlos Fernando S.
Data: | 2007-01-01
Ano: | 2007
Palavras-chave: | Attraction; Behavior; Mosquito; Olfactometer.
Resumo: | A test-chamber (K&amp;L-Chamber) made of cardboard and acrylic plastic, and consisting in four sections (A, B, C and D) was developed by Klowden &amp;amp; Lea (1978) for Aedes aegypti host-seeking behavior studies. Later, Foster &amp;amp; Lutes (1985) also used an identical chamber to successfully evaluate the efficacy of electronic repellers. It was described here a modified K&amp;L-Chamber for behavioral studies of Ae. aegypti adults. The chamber was made in polystyrene, consisting of three sections (A, B and C) and using a human hand and a fluorescent lamp as stimulus to attract the mosquitoes. The suitability of the present test-chamber was validated assaying 80 replicates and releasing 10 Ae. aegypti females in each replicate. The females were released in the section A and allowed to fly to the section C. A mean of 96.0% (s.e. 0.213) Ae. aegypti females successfully reached section C. The present test-chamber is cheaper and easier to handle and as efficient as K&amp;L-Chamber, when compared to Foster &amp;amp; Lutes (1978) that noticed 93.8% of Ae. aegypti reaching the trap section.
Tipo: | Info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Idioma: | Inglês
Identificador: | http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0085-56262007000200018
Editor: | Sociedade Brasileira De Entomologia
Relação: | 10.1590/S0085-56262007000200018
Formato: | text/html
Fonte: | Revista Brasileira de Entomologia  v.51 n.2 2007
Fonte: | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess