Field Trials to Evaluate the Effectiveness of the Biogents®-Sweetscent Lure in Combination with Several Commercial Mosquito Traps and to Assess the Effectiveness of the Biogents-Mosquitaire Trap with and Without Carbon Dioxide

A series of field experiments was conducted in Florida, California, and Louisiana in order to investigate whether adding the Biogents® (BG)-Sweetscent lure to several commercially available mosquito traps increases their catch rates and to evaluate the BG-Mosquitaire trap with and without CO . Addin...

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Published in:Journal of the American Mosquito Control Association 2019-03, Vol.35 (1), p.32-39
Main Authors: Degener, Carolin M, Geier, Martin, Kline, Dan, Urban, Joyce, Willis, Scott, Ramirez, Katherine, Cloherty, Erin R, Gordon, Scott W
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Aedes
Aedes albopictus
Animals
Aquatic insects
California
Carbon Dioxide
Culex
Culex quinquefasciatus
Disease control
Female
Field tests
Fish
Florida
Insect control
Light emitting diodes
Louisiana
Male
Mosquito Control - instrumentation
Mosquito Control - methods
Mosquito Vectors
Mosquitoes
Protectors
Species Specificity
Studies
Traps
Tropical diseases
Ultraviolet radiation
West Nile virus
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Summary:A series of field experiments was conducted in Florida, California, and Louisiana in order to investigate whether adding the Biogents® (BG)-Sweetscent lure to several commercially available mosquito traps increases their catch rates and to evaluate the BG-Mosquitaire trap with and without CO . Adding the BG-Sweetscent to the SkeeterVac Bite-Guard SVE6211, MosClean UV LED (ultraviolet light-emitting diode), Flowtron® Galaxie PV 75, Dynatrap® DT2000XL, Bite Shield Protector, and Black Flag® BZ-40 increased their catch rates up to 4.2-fold. The catch rates of the BG-Mosquitaire and the BG-Sentinel did not differ significantly for and . The BG-Mosquitaire without CO and only with BG-Sweetscent caught 1.2 times more than the CO - and Lurex3-baited Mosquito Magnet® Patriot and 2.6 times more than the CO - and Sweetscent-baited SkeeterVac, respectively. The BG-Mosquitaire baited with Sweetscent and CO collected 6.8 times more than the Mosquito Magnet Patriot and 11.9 times more than the SkeeterVac. We conclude that BG-Sweetscent increases the tiger mosquito catch rates of many commercially available mosquito traps. We proved that the BG-Mosquitaire is as efficient as the well-known BG-Sentinel and that it can outperform mosquito traps that are baited with propane-generated CO .
ISSN:8756-971X
1943-6270
DOI:10.2987/18-6790.1