Trials with portable screen rooms modified for use as animal-baited net traps for mosquito collection.
Trials in Larimer County, Colorado during July and August 1984, with recreational screen rooms modified as large animal-baited mosquito traps are described. The two units tested are free-standing, portable and require no external support. In all-night trials, 462.5 mosquitoes/trap night were captured with horse bait compared with 367/trap night with CDC light traps. In 2-hour evening comparisons, mosquitoes collected per trapping period totalled 416 for horse-bait traps, 132 for light traps, and 93 for human-bait traps. Animal-baited screen rooms offer an alternative to existing methods for mosquito surveillance.
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Division of Vector-Borne Viral Diseases, Centers for Disease Control, Fort Collins, CO 80522-2087.
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D000818:Animals; D009033:Culicidae; D004772:Entomology / Q000295:instrumentation*; D005069:Evaluation Studies as Topic; D011159:Population Surveillance