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Figure 3.3: Textile evaluation on human.

Cambio, which was in the past, the ideal place for similar investigation for our tests.

Groups of four people in the hours of greatest infestation, after having dressed in a

white suit, covered to the shoes, sit on a chair at a distance from each other, exposed to

mosquitos, from knee down for 10 minutes. For four nights, diverse horizontal and verti-

cal fabric notes treated with repellents were fixed to one leg (right leg) on the bare part

of the shin of the study participants. Untreated fabric of the same surface were attached

to the left legs. The number of mosquito landings on the treated legs (right leg) with test

strips were counted in order to compare the treated legs (right leg) with the untreated legs

(left leg) and to observe the repellency demonstrated. At the same time as the evaluation

in the same 10-minute interval, the prevalence of the nearby mosquitos will be measured

with two fixed CO2 traps (Figures 3.3 and 3.4),register the temperature, wind velocity and

lightness parameters.

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Laboratory test at Anastasia Mosquito Control District St. Augustine, Florida,

USA 2020

I. Measuring the efficacy of textile samples already treated for wrapped arm test (Fig-

ures 3.5 and 3.6)

II. Measuring the efficacy of textile samples already treated for glove test (Figures 3.7)

III. Measuring the efficacy of textile samples treated with 2 types of micro spraying

treatment before the test (Figure 3.8)

IV. Evaluation of lotions of botanical-based repellents (Figure 3.9)

V. Measuring the efficacy of repellents by use of olfactometer (Figure 3.10)

VI. Measuring the efficacy of ultrasound watches (Figure 3.11)