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MEDICAL AND VETERINARY ENTOMOLOGY
Volume 21, Issue 4, Pages 323-331Publisher
BLACKWELL PUBLISHING
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2915.2007.00697.x
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1-octen-3-ol; 1-octyn-3-ol; baited traps; mosquito attractants
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Field studies were conducted at wooded wetlands in Gainesville, FL, U.S.A., to assess responses of natural populations of adult mosquitoes (Diptera: Culicidae) to American Biophysics MM-X (TM) and Coleman MD-2500 (TM) traps baited with enantiomers of 1-octen-3-ol, a naturally occurring compound, and 1-octyn-3-ol, a closely related synthetic compound. Overall, the same species of mosquitoes were attracted by all enantiomers, although the (R)-(+) isomer of octenol generally attracted more species, and it is the isomer produced in greatest proportion in nature. Traps baited with the R-enantiomer caught greater numbers of mosquitoes than those baited with the S-enantiomer of each compound, whereas traps baited with S-enantiomers were equally or slightly less attractive than those baited with carbon dioxide only.
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