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Figure 4.8: Resting catch or torch light mosquito collection method.

grassy vegetation, inside human dwellings on the wall, ceiling, rocky crevices and holes

and other places where mosquitos can be surely protected and hiding from nocturnal preda-

tors, from low temperatures etc. Then a mechanical aspirator or sucking tubes are used to

suck them inside the tube, after that a 50 × 19 mm glass vials is used to catch them inside,

after that a piece of cotton is used to plug in the vials. A 10 minute per hour time might be

performed from 6 pm to 6 am to collect for female and male adult mosquitos.

4.13

OTHER TECHNIQUES USED FOR MOSQUITO COLLECTION

4.13.1

Adult sampling

According to Eliningaya & Aneth 2009, the four sampling methods evaluated were

operated in the same time. Human landing catch (HLC), odor-baited trap (OBET), pit

shelters (PS) and indoor resting collection (IRC). IRC can be performed in the morning

from 6:30 am to 8:30 am of every experimental day in cowshed and indoors using me-

chanical aspirator as described in entomological manual book (Eliningaya & Aneth 2009).