A method of accounting for blood-sucking mosquitos with the use of a dark bell and removable sack
Masalkina, T.M.; Kachalova, N.A.
Meditsinskaia Parazitologiia i Parazitarnye Bolezni 1: 27-30
1989
ISSN/ISBN: 0025-8326 PMID: 2710038 Document Number: 346558
The data on registration with the use of dark bell and insect net with removable sacks were comparatively assessed with regard to the various exposition time of atractives. Practicability of exposure reduction from 5 to 2 minutes in a dark-bell registration method was proved as was the reduction of net-flapping from 100 to 50 times. To calculate the number of mosquitos might be caught with use of one of the aforementioned methods against the number caught with the other (regardless the region of the country and mosquito species) the authors suggested the following regression equations: y-2.6 +/- 43 or x-0.4y +/- 17 (where x- the number of net-caught mosquitos, y- the number of mosquitos caught by the use of dark-bell method.