Simple Summary Mosquitoes are well known to spread diseases when they take a blood
meal. However, not all species feed on blood but instead get their nourishment from other …

Vector control is an important component of the interventions aimed at mosquito‐borne
disease control. Current and future mosquito control strategies are likely to rely largely on …

Olfaction is a key insect adaptation to a wide range of habitats. In the last thirty years, the
detection of octenol by blood-feeding insects has been primarily understood in the context of …

Oviposition traps or ovitraps indirectly estimate the vector population as it as a simple,
inexpensive and sensitive tool for monitoring oviposition and vector indices. In the present …

Background Chemical and behavioural ecology of mosquitoes plays an important role in the
development of chemical cue based vector control. To date, studies available have focused …

Simple Summary The Aedes mosquito species are highly adapted to human dwellings
where they develop in a large variety of human-made containers, and adults feed on human …

Gravid female traps are used for surveillance of populations of Culex spp. and arboviruses
such as West Nile virus. Field trials evaluating various attributes of gravid female traps for …

Introduction: Mosquitoes are slender, flying insects of the order diptera (true flies) in the
arthropod Super-Phylum. They are deadly insects transmitting diseases such as malaria …

The influence of substrate brightness (value), contrast and colour (hue) on oviposition is
quantified under low night‐light levels of 1.2× 10− 4 wm− 2 in choice‐tests using caged …

Background Little is known about how malaria mosquitoes locate oviposition sites in nature.
Such knowledge is important to help devise monitoring and control measures that could be …