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JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN MOSQUITO CONTROL ASSOCIATION
Volume 24, Issue 3, Pages 377-386Publisher
AMER MOSQUITO CONTROL ASSOC
DOI: 10.2987/5612.1
Keywords
threshold; Aedes albopictus; Aedes caspius; mosquito; monitoring; CO2-baited trap; oviposition trap; container index
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- Rovigo Local Health Bureau N.18
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With nuisance mosquito species, the goal of integrated pest management is to keep mosquito density below a tolerance level that is often set by economic, ecological, and political factors. This study compares actual human annoyance, as measured by a phone survey, with several measures of mosquito abundance, in order to determine a threshold that is both relevant and practical. The efficiency of CO2-baited traps, container index (CI), and oviposition traps for monitoring Aedes albopictus, and CO2-baited traps for monitoring Aedes caspius, was evaluated. CO2-baited traps were confirmed to be of low efficiency in Ae. albopictus collection, while correlation matrices showed a good relationship between CI and the number of eggs collected (R = 0.91), and between number of eggs and phone-survey nuisance level estimates (R = 0.88). Correlation between CI and phone-survey nuisance levels was slightly lower (R = 0.78). We found a close relationship between the nuisance level declared by residents and mosquito captures obtained with CO2-baited traps (Ae. caspius) and ovitraps (Ae. albopictus). An equation is presented to estimate annoyance according to dwelling characteristics and to the presence of children in the family.
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