Research Article
Attractive Sugar Bait Formulation for Development of Attractive Toxic Sugar Bait for Control of Aedes aegypti (Linnaeus)
Table 2
Percentage of laboratory and field strain mosquitoes attracted towards different ASBs in screening and postscreening assays.
| | ASBs | % mosquitoes landed on the bait | | Laboratory strains | Field strains | | AND-Aedes aegypti | AND-Aedes aegypti-DL10 | Aedes aegypti (SHD-Delhi) | Aedes aegypti (GVD-Delhi) |
| | Screening cage-A | | Control | 4.0% | 30.0% | 14.0% | 17.0% | | Watermelon juice-ASB | 10.0% | 24.0% | 11.0% | 12.0% | | Muskmelon juice-ASB | 3.00% | 25.0% | 13.0% | 13.0% | | Mango juice-ASB | 17.0% | 34.0% | 24.0% | 25.0% |
| | Screening cage-B | | Control | 11.0% | 24.0% | 24.0% | 20.0% | | Papaya juice-ASB | 8.0% | 26.0% | 14.0% | 14.0% | | Orange juice-ASB | 15.0% | 10.0% | 21.0% | 8.0% | | Plum juice-ASB | 23.0% | 30.0% | 39.0% | 30.0% |
| | Screening cage-C | | Control | 16.0% | 24.0% | 17.0% | 24.0% | | Pineapple juice-ASB | 18.0% | 12.0% | 10.0% | 14.0% | | Sweet lemon juice-ASB | 14.0% | 10.0% | 21.0% | 10.0% | | Guava juice-ASB | 28.0% | 34.0% | 31.0% | 36.0% |
| | Postscreening | | Control (10% sucrose) | 16.0% | 26.0% | 16.0% | 20.0% | | Mango juice-ASB | 24.0% | 30.0% | 17.0% | 24.0% | | Plum juice-ASB | 31.0% | 31.0% | 33.0% | 30.0% | | Guava juice-ASB | 36.0% | 36.0% | 37.0% | 38.0% |
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Four replicates each with n = 50, 25 males and 25 females (1 h@ intervals of 10 min), with total n = 200. |
