Investigators have used a variety of techniques to sample resting, engorged mosquitoes for the purposes of studying mosquito blood-feeding behavior. However, evidence exists that mosquito blood-feeding patterns may vary according to collection method. Engorged mosquitoes were collected from rural and urban habitats after the 2007 dry (July) and wet (December) seasons in the Department of Izabal, Guatemala, with the use of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) light traps, gravid traps, and aspiration from plastic pots and vegetation. We evaluated the utility of plastic pots as sampling tools for engorged Culex mosquitoes and compared Cx. quinquefasciatus blood host identities among collection methods. The array of vertebrate hosts supplying blood to Cx. quinquefasciatus did not differ significantly by method of collection. The density of engorged Cx. quinquefasciatus per trap-night was not significantly different between CDC light traps, gravid traps, and plastic pots; however, there was a significantly higher proportion of total mosquitoes that were engorged collected from pots than from either CDC light traps or gravid traps.
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1 September 2010
Comparison of Engorged Culex quinquefasciatus Collection and Blood-Feeding Pattern among Four Mosquito Collection Methods in Puerto Barrios, Guatemala, 2007
Rebekah J. Kent,
Ana Silvia Gonzalez Reiche,
Maria Eugenia Morales-Betoulle,
Nicholas Komar
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blood feeding
Culex quinquefasciatus
Guatemala
mosquito collection