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Odor Volatiles Modulating Mosquito Behavior
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Odor Volatiles Modulating Mosquito Behavior

A special issue of Insects (ISSN 2075-4450). This special issue belongs to the section "Insect Behavior and Pathology".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 September 2022) | Viewed by 1763

Special Issue Editor

Dr. André Luis Costa-Da-Silva

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Guest Editor
College of Arts, Sciences & Education, Florida International University, Miami, FL 33199, USA
Interests: Aedes aegypti; arboviruses; molecular biology; transgenesis; neurogenetics and behavior

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Mosquitoes strongly rely on olfactory cues to perceive their surroundings whilst navigating throughout landscapes. Volatile plumes emanated by hosts, breeding sites, plants, predators, microorganisms, and even interspecific and conspecific organisms compose a complex and rich panel of odors that can be detected by these insects. Mosquitoes are oriented by these volatiles and use this available information in preserved and modified environments in their favor, for the best behavioral decisions towards survivorship and reproduction. This Special Issue will compile the recent advances in the identification of volatiles modulating mosquito behaviors that translate in a fine-tuned perception of their environment, and newly characterized odor-driven behaviors that are associated with host detection, breeding-site seeking and oviposition, feeding, mating, and other fundamental behaviors.

Dr. André Luis Costa-Da-Silva
Guest Editor

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Keywords

  • mosquitoes
  • behavior
  • volatiles
  • odors
  • olfaction
  • oviposition
  • breeding-site seeking
  • host-seeking

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Assessment of Various Colors Combined with Insecticides in Devising Ovitraps as Attracting and Killing Tools for Mosquitoes
by Adam Khan, Misbah Ullah, Gul Zamin Khan, Nazeer Ahmed, Ashwag Shami, Rania Ali El Hadi Mohamed, Fahd Mohammed Abd Al Galil and Muhammad Salman
Insects 2023, 14(1), 25; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/insects14010025 - 26 Dec 2022
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Dengue virus, transmitted by Aedes aegypti mosquitoes, is the most important emerging viral disease, infecting more than 50 million people annually. Currently used sticky traps are useful tools for monitoring and controlling Ae. aegypti. Therefore, this study was conducted to evaluate the [...] Read more.
Dengue virus, transmitted by Aedes aegypti mosquitoes, is the most important emerging viral disease, infecting more than 50 million people annually. Currently used sticky traps are useful tools for monitoring and controlling Ae. aegypti. Therefore, this study was conducted to evaluate the attraction of Ae. aegypti mosquitoes using various colors, materials and insecticides. The laboratory and field assessed the four different colors of ovitraps (blue, green, black and transparent). Among the tested ovitraps, the black ovitraps showed the highest number of eggs (348.8) in the laboratory and maximum eggs (80.0) in field trials. In addition, six different materials (casein, urea, yeast, fish meal, chicken meal and water) were also used to evaluate mosquito’s attraction. In our results, the highest number of eggs were collected with fish meal having 0.5% concentration in both laboratory (195.17) and the field (100.7). In laboratory trials, the Deltamethrin treated ovitraps (treated with Deltamethrin) significantly trapped and killed the highest percent of female Ae. aegypti (91.5%) compared to untreated (not-treated with Deltamethrin) ovitraps (3.3%). In field trials, the lethality was determined by installing 10 lethal ovitraps in one block and 10 untreated ovitraps in another block. The results indicate a significant reduction in eggs collected from the treated block (727 eggs) as compared to the untreated block (1865 eggs). The data also reveal that the ovitrap positive index (50) and egg density index (24.3) were also low in treated areas than in untreated areas, 83.3 and 37.3, respectively. It is concluded that the lethal ovitraps significantly reduced the Ae. aegypti population and thus could be considered an integral part of the integrated vector management (IVM) program. Full article
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