Observations on the flight activities of Culex pipiens fatigans in Rangoon, Burma.
Knowledge of the behaviour of a vector is often of value in devising suitable methods for assessing control or eradication measures. Flight behaviour is particularly important, since it is during this activity of a mosquito that trapping is possible. Trapping data have proved useful in the assessment of the action of insecticides on the vectors of malaria, and there is no reason why this should not also be the case with the vectors of filariasis.In this paper the difficulties of trapping Culex pipiens fatigans by conventional means are stressed. Moreover, since flight is a dynamic process, the interpretation of flight activities from data collected by traps, which are static, is difficult. Nevetheless, the results presented, however inadequate, show that adult C. p. fatigans move about more, both by day and at night, than is usually suspected and that the subject would repay closer study.
D000818:Animals; D001522:Behavior, Animal; D003465:Culex; D005260:Female; D008297:Male; D009032:Mosquito Control; D009068:Movement; D002052:Myanmar