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JOURNAL OF MEDICAL ENTOMOLOGY
Volume 54, Issue 5, Pages 1415-1419Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS INC
DOI: 10.1093/jme/tjx074
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attraction; ZIKV; dengue; chikungunya; yellow fever
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Combinations of female wingbeat acoustic cues and visual cues were evaluated to determine their potential for use in male Aedes aegypti (L.) traps in peridomestic environments. A modified Centers for Disease control (CDC) light trap using a 350-500Hz frequency-sweep broadcast from a speaker as an acoustic stimulus, combined with a black poster-board half-cylinder behind the trap as a visual stimulus, captured a significantly greater proportion of males in a laboratory arena during daylight than a CDC trap with the visual stimulus alone or a CDC trap alone without stimuli. Traps of each treatment type captured relatively more males when they were placed at darker positions in the arena. Potential applications are discussed for the incorporation of these findings into trapping programs to reduce transmission of human pathogens vectored by Ae. aegypti.
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