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Table 2 Comparison of percentages of mosquitoes (± 2SE) that died after visiting insecticide-treated odour-baited mosquito landing boxes or the controls

From: Using a new odour-baited device to explore options for luring and killing outdoor-biting malaria vectors: a report on design and field evaluation of the Mosquito Landing Box

  

Anopheles arabiensis

Anopheles funestus

Other Anopheles

Culex species

Mansonia species

Tests conducted using 1% pirimiphos methyl mixed in paint

Control

0.32 ± 0.622

0.89 ± 0.000

0.00 ± 1.441

0.00 ± 0.000

0.00 ± 0.000

Treated MLB with 12 louvers

6.78 ± 2.769

17.95 ± 8.820

16.23 ± 9.944

2.16 ± 2.584

7.58 ± 4.316

Treated MLB with 8 louvers and treated internal surfaces

32.07 ± 9.016

33.91 ± 13.200

33.03 ± 12.827

22.20 ± 14.324

25.69 ± 13.429

Tests conducted using 5% pirimiphos methyl mixed in paint

Control

4.07 ± 3.741

0.00 ± 0.000

No data

1.09 ± 1.442

1.62 ± 1.106

Treated MLB with 8 louvers and treated internal surfaces

50.64 ± 5.128

25.00 ± 13.056

No data

37.76 ± 7.311

47.98 ± 11.315

  1. The MLB was painted with locally prepared pirimiphos-methyl oil based paint while the inner suspended net was also treated by soaking it in the same mixture of pirimiphos-methyl then drying under a shade.