Abstract:An indigenous, novel, cost-effective, non-electric lethal ovitrap was designed for the dengue vector. The bacteria Bacillus cereus VCRC 641 was grown in a cost-effective culture medium of chicken feather waste. The culture supernatant was used as ovitrap attraction of the dengue vector of Aedes aegypti (Linnaeus 1762). Twenty experiments with 80 ovitraps, three experiments with 15,000 ovitraps, and three experiments with 3,000 ovitraps in the laboratory, outdoor and households respectively conducted, to assess… Show more
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