Sticky bottle traps: a simple and effective method for collecting adult phlebotomine sand flies from rodent burrows in a Leishmania-endemic region of Egypt.
We describe a simple, economic, and effective method for constructing sticky bottle traps that can be used to capture adult sand flies from rodent burrows. Although sand fly surveillance activities often employ light- or CO2-baited traps, sticky papers secured to a post or placed on the ground can also be used. However, in arid environments, sand and other debris often collect on the sticky surface, reducing trap effectiveness, capacity, and a means for rapid discrimination and enumeration of adult specimens. Herein, a procedure for constructing sticky bottle traps is provided, as well as preliminary results from a recent sand fly field survey utilizing this device.
US Naval Medical Research Unit No. 3, Cairo, Egypt.
Peter J
PJ
Obenauer
Jeffery T
JT
Villinski
Alia
A
Zayed
Noha
N
Watany
Shabaan S
SS
El-Hossary
D000818:Animals; D004534:Egypt; D007300:Insect Control / Q000295:instrumentation*; D007303:Insect Vectors; D007896:Leishmaniasis / Q000635:transmission; D010691:Phlebotomus; D012377:Rodentia