title: A wire-frame shelter for collecting resting mosquitoes.
abstract: Collecting resting mosquitoes is important for studies of the bloodfeeding patterns of medically important mosquitoes. We developed a novel resting shelter, called a wire-frame resting shelter, for collecting resting mosquitoes and evaluated its efficacy at sites in Alabama and the Florida Panhandle. The shelter is made of a 1 x 2-m section of galvanized metal-wire field fencing rolled into a cylinder and placed inside a heavy-duty black plastic bag. In the field evaluation, the wire-frame shelters were comparable to other artificial resting shelters (trash cans) in the number of Culex (Melanoconion) females collected. While a number of other resting shelter designs are available, the wire-frame shelter has a number of beneficial attributes, including being easily assembled in the field, lightweight, inexpensive, and easily modified.
authors.affiliation: Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology, Auburn University, Auburn, AL 36849, USA.
authors.forename: Nathan D
authors.initials: ND
authors.lastname: Burkett-Cadena
mesh_terms: D000407:Alabama; D000818:Animals; D003465:Culex / Q000145:classification / Q000502:physiology; D009033:Culicidae / Q000145:classification* / Q000502:physiology; D004772:Entomology / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods*; D005260:Female; D005431:Florida