Development of a Semi-Field System for Contained Field Trials with Aedes aegypti in Southern Mexico

A Secure Semi-Field System for the Study of Aedes aegypti

BACKGROUND New contained semi-field cages are being developed and used to test novel vector control strategies of dengue and malaria vectors. We herein describe a new Quarantine Insectary Level-2 (QIC-2) laboratory and field cages (James Cook University Mosquito Research Facility Semi-Field System; MRF SFS) that are being used to measure the impact of the endosymbiont Wolbachia pipientis on pop...

Field Trials on Bioresmethrin Aegypti

The Ministry of Health has for the past six years been using Reslin 10/10 (R) for thermal fogging against Aedes aegypti. In view of the recent report of bioresmethrin resistance in A. aegypti in Thailand (WHO, 1976) it was decided to evaluate the effectiveness of this compound for A. aegypti. The trial was carried out in the Chinese New Village of Seri Kembangan, since there was an outbreak of ...

Egg Development May Require Multiple Bloodmeals among Small Aedes Aegypti (diptera: Culicidae) Field Collected in Northeastern Mexico

Laboratory and semi-field evaluation of Mosquito Dunks against Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus larvae (Diptera: Culicidae).

Laboratory bioassays and semi-field studies were conducted on the efficacy and longevity of Mosquito Dunks (7,000 ITU/mg Bti) in order to determine the concentration-response relationship and the effectiveness on the potency of the Bti product against Aedes mosquito species based on the WHO protocol standard methods and to determine the longevity of release for this product against Ae. aegypti ...

Spinosad as an effective larvicide for control of Aedes albopictus and Aedes aegypti, vectors of dengue in southern Mexico.

BACKGROUND Field trials were conducted during the wet and dry seasons in periurban and semi-rural cemeteries in southern Mexico to determine the efficacy of a suspension concentrate formulation of spinosad (Tracer 480SC) on the inhibition of development of Aedes albopictus L. and Ae. aegypti Skuse. For this, oviposition traps were treated with spinosad (1 or 5 mg L(-1)), Bacillus thuringiensis ...