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Experimental Hut Techniques

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Mosquito Ecology

The assessment of the numbers of mosquitoes resting inside huts by aspirator or pyrethrum space spray collections and the use of exit traps fitted to windows, doors or eaves to collect mosquitoes leaving huts have been described in Chap. 5. The present short account concerns the application of these methods for evaluating the efficiency of spraying houses with residual insecticides and using insecticide-treated nets and their effects on mosquito behaviour.

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(2008). Experimental Hut Techniques. In: Mosquito Ecology. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-6666-5_16

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