Vector Control by Removal Trapping

Eave Screening and Push-Pull Tactics to Reduce House Entry by Vectors of Malaria

“…15,33 The main aim of installing attractant-baited traps, however, would be to deplete mosquito populations through daily removal trapping. 34,35,56 In both field experiments, outdoor traps caught considerable numbers of malaria vectors and other mosquitoes. In field experiment II, MM-X traps hung outside houses to which a type of eave screening had been applied, trapped consistently higher numbers of mosquitoes of all species than traps outside unscreened houses.…”

Preliminary evidence that synanthropic flies contribute to the transmission of trachoma- causing Chlamydia trachomatis in Latin America

“…No previous studies had been conducted to assess potential vectors in Latin America. However, eye gnats are serious pests to humans and animals in the southern half of North America (particularly Hippelates collusor in southern California), where they are thought to mechanically transmit conjunctivitis, yaws, and bovine mastitis 8,14 , and have been implicated as vectors initiating epidemic bacterial conjunctivitis 14 . In southern Brazil, Haemophilus aegyptius, the causative agent of acute conjunctivitis, has been isolated from eye gnats collected from around the eyes of children 8 .…”

Olfaction in vector-host interactions

“…New techniques are being investigated due in part to environmental concerns and desires to reduce the use of chemical insecticides. One technique that has received increased attention is the use of traps for control (Day and Sjogren 1994). The feasibility of reducing local biting midge populations through the use of removal trapping has recently been investigated by Kline and Lemire (1998;DL Kline unpublished data) in Florida, USA.…”

“…The discovery of synthetic odour baits that are capable of attracting mosquitoes much the same as a human being can enhance the development of powerful tools for vector surveillance and control (Day and Sjogren 1994). Individual chemical compounds and blends thereof have been shown to attract African Anopheles mosquitoes under semi-field and field environments.…”

“…Once these semiochemicals have been identified, it is expected that they can be incorporated into technologies that can be used to trap, kill or repel mosquitoes (Cook et al 2007, Day and Sjogren 1994, Kline 2006) as has been successfully demonstrated for tsetse flies (see Chapter 12, this volume; also see Chapter 17, this volume). Ultimately, some of these products may improve or even replace current control technologies or sampling tools in epidemiological studies of mosquito-borne diseases.…”