Implications for operational control of adult mosquito production in cisterns and wells in St. Augustine, FL using attractive sugar baits

Acta Tropica

Volumn 124, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 158-161

  Qualls, Whitney A ^a   Xue, Rudy ^a   Revay, Edita E ^b   Allan, Sandra A ^c   Müller, Günter C ^d  

^a Anastasia Mosquito Control District   (United States)

^b TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^c CENTER FOR MEDICAL   (United States)

^d HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

Anopheles crucians; ATSB; Attractive toxic sugar baits; Cisterns; Control; Culex quinquefasciatus; St. Augustine, FL; Toxorhynchites rutilus; Wells

Indexed keywords

SUGAR;

MORTALITY; MOSQUITO; PEST CONTROL; TOXIN; URBAN AREA; WELL WATER;

AEDES ALBOPICTUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TRAPPING; ANOPHELES; ANOPHELES CRUCIANS; ARTICLE; ATTRACTIVE TOXIC SUGAR BAIT; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; CULEX QUINQUEFASCIATUS; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; GENERAL DEVICE; INSECT CONTROL; MALE; MORTALITY; MOSQUITO; NEMATOCERA; NONHUMAN; STAINING; TOXORHYNCHITES RUTILUS; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CARBOHYDRATES; CULICIDAE; ECOSYSTEM; FEMALE; FLORIDA; HUMANS; MALE; MOSQUITO CONTROL; PHEROMONES; STAINING AND LABELING;

AEDES ALBOPICTUS; ANOPHELES CRUCIANS; CULEX PIPIENS QUINQUEFASCIATUS; TOXORHYNCHITES RUTILUS; TOXORHYNCHITES RUTILUS RUTILUS;

EID: 84865772502     PISSN: 0001706X     EISSN: 18736254     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.actatropica.2012.07.004     Document Type: Article

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