BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE OF ADULT ANOPHELES QUADRIMACULATUS AND AEDES ALBOPICTUS TO DIFFERENT CARBOHYDRATES IN AN OLFACTOMETER

Authors

  • Rui-de Xue Anastasia Mosquito Control District
  • Daniel Kline USDA ARS Center for Medical, Agricultural and Veterinary Entomology
  • Gunter Muller University of Sciences, Techniques and Technology of Bamako
  • Donald Barnard USDA ARS Center for Medical, Agricultural and Veterinary Entomology

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.32473/jfmca.v69i1.130635

Keywords:

carbohydrates, sugar feeding, Anopheles quadrimaculatus, Aedes albopictus, attractive toxic sugar bait

Abstract

Eleven different carbohydrates were evaluated to determine the behavioral response of adult Anopheles quadrimaculatus Say and Aedes albopictus Skuse using an olfactometer. The carbohydrates used in the study are arabinose, fructose, glucose, maltose, melezitose, meliniose, raffinose, rhamnose, sucrose, trehalose, and turanose. The results showed that both species of mosquitoes regardless of the sex had significantly higher attraction to arabinose, maltose, meliniose, and trehalose than other 7 carbohydrates tested. Both sexes and both species responded to maltose and trehalose in considerable numbers, and the least responses were to sucrose except by male Ae. albopictus. These findings may provide insights to the development of more effective sugar-based toxic baits for the operational application in mosquito control programs.

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Published

2022-03-28

Issue

Vol. 69 No. 1 (2022): Journal of the Florida Mosquito Control Association

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