The traditional indoor spraying technique to control Anopheles albimanus mosquitos was compared with a selective method that targets their preferred resting sites in coastal villages of southern Mexico. We also determined whether mosquitos changed their preferred resting sites following insecticide applications. In the selective spraying approach, two 1-m wide horizontal swaths of bendiocarb in...

The seasonal abundance, night indoor biting behavior and parity of Culex quinquefasciatus were investigated for a period of one year from June 1988 to May 1989 in Mysore City. Twelve-hour night-time biting catches were carried out from 1800-0600 hours at four selected urban localities. The biting cycle revealed that Cx. quinquefasciatus was active throughout the night, with peak activity at 220...

oil (the substance recommended as the panacea by the British Medical Journal). Celli's experience with this substance, however, by no means leads him to give it the first place. In making their very numerous experiments Celli and Casagrandi take as the criterion for judging the larvicidal action of any given substance, the time taken to kill the larvre, and they consider any substance inefficac...

To the Editor of "The Indian Medical Gazette." Sir,? Many thanks for publishing my letter about Mosquito Brigades. My book on this subject is now nearly out. I enclose a list of our publications, and sent you some days ago my First Progress Sierra Leone Report. Now we send Annett and Dutton's Filaria Report, which you will see is a valuable work. Well, I do not think much has yet been done agai...

Mosquito collections were carried out for a period of one year from January to December 1992 in a pig farm in Sungai Pelek, Selangor, Malaysia. A total of 41,022 mosquitos belonging to 52 species and 20 genera were collected. Culex tritaeniorhynchus and Cx. gelidus, the important vectors, comprised 63% of all mosquitos collected. Both these species were collected in large numbers during the wet...