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Factors in the Attractiveness of Bodies for Mosquitoes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 May 2012

A. W. A. Brown
Affiliation:
Department of Zoology, University of Western Ontario, London
H. P. Roessler
Affiliation:
Department of Zoology, University of Western Ontario, London
E. Y. Lipsitz
Affiliation:
Department of Zoology, University of Western Ontario, London
A. G. Carmichael
Affiliation:
Department of Zoology, University of Western Ontario, London

Extract

This exhibit represents part of the work of the Department of Zoology in the last 15 years, and others who have contributed to it in the past are L. Burgess, D. G. Peterson, R. P. Thompson, W. L. Sippell and M. R. Smart.

The laboratory experiments have been made with Aedes aegypti in a large cage, in which a choice is offered between a pair of objects differing in one factor, or a pair of emission ports for airborne vapours. Thus six factors have been evaluated and their order of importance has been found to be as follows:

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Copyright
Copyright © Entomological Society of Canada 1964

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