Efficacy of Mosquito Traps for Collecting Potential West Nile Mosquito Vectors in a Natural Mediterranean Wetland

David Roiz Estación Biologica de Doñana (EBD-CSIC), Seville, Spain; Mosquito Control Service, Huelva, Spain

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Marion Roussel Estación Biologica de Doñana (EBD-CSIC), Seville, Spain; Mosquito Control Service, Huelva, Spain

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Joaquin Muñoz Estación Biologica de Doñana (EBD-CSIC), Seville, Spain; Mosquito Control Service, Huelva, Spain

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Santiago Ruiz Estación Biologica de Doñana (EBD-CSIC), Seville, Spain; Mosquito Control Service, Huelva, Spain

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Surveillance, research, and control of mosquito-borne diseases such as West Nile virus require efficient methods for sampling mosquitoes. We compared the efficacy of BG-Sentinel and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)-CO2 traps in terms of the abundances of host-seeking and blood-fed female mosquitoes and the origin of mosquito bloodmeals. Our results indicate that BG-Sentinel traps that use CO2 and attractants are as effective as CDC-CO2 traps for Culex mosquito species, Ochlerotatus caspius, and they are also highly efficient at capturing Anopheles atroparvus host-seeking and blood-fed females with or without CO2. The CDC-CO2 trap is the least efficient method for capturing blood-fed females. BG-Sentinel traps with attractants and CO2 were significantly better at capturing mosquitoes that had fed on mammals than the unbaited BG-Sentinel and CDC-CO2 traps in the cases of An. atroparvus and Cx. theileri. These results may help researchers to optimize trapping methods by obtaining greater sample sizes and saving time and money.

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*Address correspondence to David Roiz, Department of Wetland Ecology, Estación Biologica de Doñana (EBD-CSIC), Isla de La Cartuja, Av. Americo Vespucio, s/n., 41092 Seville, Spain. E-mail: davidroiz@gmail.com

Financial support: This work was partially supported by Projects P07-RNM-02511, RNM118, and RNM157 of the Junta de Andalucia and European Commission EuroWestNile FP7 Project 261391.

Authors' addresses: David Roiz, Marion Roussel, Joaquin Muñoz, Ramón Soriguer, and Jordi Figuerola, Department of Wetland Ecology, Estación Biologica de Doñana (EBD-CSIC), Seville, Spain, E-mails: davidroiz@gmail.com, marion.roussel1@gmail.com, quini@ebd.csic.es, soriguer@ebd.csic.es, and jordi@ebd.csic.es. Santiago Ruiz, Mosquito Control Service, Huelva, Spain, E-mail: sruiz@diphuelva.org.

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