title: Development and Evaluation of an Attractive Self-Marking Ovitrap to Measure Dispersal and Determine Skip Oviposition in Aedes albopictus (Diptera: Culicidae) Field Populations.
abstract: Aedes albopictus (Skuse) is a container-breeding species with considerable public health importance. To date, Ae. albopictus oviposition behavior has been assessed in outdoor conditions, but only with laboratory-reared specimens. In outdoor large-cage and field studies, we used an attractive self-marking ovipositional device to assess Ae. albopictus skip oviposition behavior. In field studies, 37 wild Ae. albopictus that visited an attractive self-marking ovisite were subsequently captured at a sticky ovitrap within a 4-d period. Because the average Ae. albopictus gonotrophic period is 4.5-6 d, the wild-caught Ae. albopictus visited at least two oviposition sites within a single gonotrophic period. This provided field-based indirect evidence of skip oviposition. The mean distance traveled (MDT) during the 20-d evaluations ranged from 58 to 78 m. The maximum observed distance traveled was 149 m, which was the outer edge of our trapping ability. As populations of Ae. albopictus increased, the MDT during the 4- and 20-d post-marking period increased significantly. Additional observations of wild-marked and captured Aedes triseriatus (Say) are discussed.
authors.affiliation: Entomology and Nematology Department, P.O. Box 110620, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611 (timothy.davis.8@us.af.mil; pkaufman@ufl.edu).
authors.forename: Timothy J
authors.initials: TJ
authors.lastname: Davis
authors.affiliation: Entomology and Nematology Department, P.O. Box 110620, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611 (timothy.davis.8@us.af.mil; pkaufman@ufl.edu) Corresponding author, e-mail: pkaufman@ufl.edu.
authors.forename: Phillip E
authors.initials: PE
authors.lastname: Kaufman
authors.affiliation: Department of Geography and Environment, University of Southampton, University Rd., Southampton SO17 1BJ, United Kingdom (A.J.Tatem@soton.ac.uk) Fogarty International Center, Fogarty National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892 (A.J.Tatem@soton.ac.uk).
authors.forename: Andrew J
authors.initials: AJ
authors.lastname: Tatem
authors.affiliation: USDA-ARS, Center for Medical, Agricultural and Veterinary Entomology, 1600 SW 23rd Dr., Gainesville, FL 32608 (jerry.hogsette@ars.usda.gov; dan.kline@ars.usda.gov).
authors.forename: Jerome A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Hogsette
authors.affiliation: USDA-ARS, Center for Medical, Agricultural and Veterinary Entomology, 1600 SW 23rd Dr., Gainesville, FL 32608 (jerry.hogsette@ars.usda.gov; dan.kline@ars.usda.gov).
authors.forename: Daniel L
authors.initials: DL
authors.lastname: Kline
mesh_terms: D000330:Aedes / Q000502:physiology*; D000818:Animals; D005260:Female; D009032:Mosquito Control / Q000295:instrumentation*; D010058:Oviposition
keywords: Aedes triseriatus; egg distribution; installment oviposition; vector surveillance