title: Description of three practical and inexpensive devices for the collection of mosquitoes and other small insects.
abstract: Three new devices for collecting and maintaining mosquitoes and other small insects are described. A suction tube, composed of two pieces of plastic transparent tube, the narrower fitted in the wider, with the mouth protected by the use of voile, is cheap and practical and can be transported around the neck. A 900-ml plastic transparent box is utilized for the restraint of sucked insects and, with the adaptation of two pieces of plastic tube, as a suction chamber.
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Microbiologia e Parasitologia, Centro de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, 88040-900 Florianópolis, Santa Catarina, Brazil.
authors.forename: Carlos Brisola
authors.initials: CB
authors.lastname: Marcondes
authors.forename: Jeronimo
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Alencar
authors.forename: Valdir Queiroz
authors.initials: VQ
authors.lastname: Balbino
authors.forename: Anthony Erico
authors.initials: AE
authors.lastname: Guimarães
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D009033:Culicidae; D009032:Mosquito Control / Q000191:economics / Q000295:instrumentation*; D013396:Suction