“…With 2-mercaptoethanol and sodium sulfide: 10-100 mg ml À1 , and swormlure-2: 41 mg ml À1 (Urech et al, 2004) Sodium hydroxide L. cuprina (Dethier, 1947) NA Water: 200 mg ml À1 (Hepburn and Nolte, 1943) a Potassium hydroxide L. cuprina (Dethier, 1947) NA Water: 7.2-240 mg ml À1 (Hepburn and Nolte, 1943) a Lactic acid L. sericata, Calliphora erythrocephala (Dethier, 1947) Lactobacillus acidophilus: 0.07-0.7 mg ml À1 (Juárez Tomás et al, 2003) A total amount of 0.023-0.133 mg h À1 from human hands is attractive to mosquitoes Aedes aegypti (Smith et al, 1970) b Ammonia L. sericata (Hilker and Meiners, 2002) P. mirabilis: 0.297 mg ml À1 (Vince et al, 1973) Ammonium hydroxide: 5% (Cragg, 1950) Putrescine Calliphoridae (Wardle, 1921) P. mirabilis: 0.003-0.088 mg ml À1 (Sturgill and Rather, 2004) Water on filter paper: 0.001-1 mg ml À1 (Robacker, 2001), 1 mg attracts 70% L. sericata (this study) p-Cresol Cochliomyia, Chrysomya (Hilker and Meiners, 2002) Lactobacillus spp. : 0.8 mg ml À1 in (Yokoyama and Carlson, 1981) A total amount of 0.005-0.02 mg ml À1 used to attract mosquitoes (Culex quinquefasciatus) for oviposition (Poonam et al, 2002) b Benzoic acid Cochliomyia, Chrysomya (Hilker and Meiners, 2002) NA Swormlure-2: 41 mg ml À1 (Urech et al, 2004) Butyric acid Cochliomyia (Broce, 1980) Pig cecal bacteria: 0.053-1.057 mg ml À1 (Kobayashi and Sakata, 2006) A total amount of 0.02 mg ml À1 used as a synthetic fly attractant for Fannia femoralis (Mulla et al, 1984) Phenol Cochliomyia, Chrysomya (Hilker and Meiners, 2002) Marine bacteria: 0.1-1 mg ml À1 (Updegraff, 1949) Swormlure-2: 41 mg ml À1 used in (Urech et al, 2004) Abbreviation: NA, not applicable.…”