The Sticky Resting Box, a new tool for studying resting behaviour of Afrotropical malaria vectors

Parasites & Vectors

Table 1 Daily predicted mean estimates (±SE) of Anophelinae and Culicinae mosquitoes collected by Sticky Resting Box and by traditional collection methods

Village	Method	Gender	Anophelinae			Culicinae
Village	Method	Gender	Mean	+SE	-SE	Mean	+SE	-SE
Koubri	BP	♀	2.85	4.09	1.99	0.92	1.49	0.57
RS-2011	BP	♂	1.56	2.36	1.03	0.60	0.93	0.39
	SRB-IN	♀	0.82	1.18	0.57	0.93	1.48	0.59
	SRB-IN	♂	0.35	0.54	0.23	0.15	0.24	0.09
	PIT	♀	10.49	14.89	7.39	1.55	2.20	1.09
	PIT	♂	8.20	11.57	5.81	0.77	1.47	0.47
	SRB-OUT	♀	1.72	2.37	1.25	1.25	1.76	0.89
	SRB-OUT	♂	0.93	1.28	0.67	0.27	0.51	0.14
Goden	BP	♀	4.46	7.22	2.75	0.06	0.09	0.04
RS-2011	BP	♂	2.55	4.11	1.58	0.01	0.02	0
	SRB-IN	♀	0.88	1.44	0.54	0.14	0.19	0.10
	SRB-IN	♂	0.37	0.60	0.23	0.02	0.04	0.01
	PIT	♀	9.00	13.7	5.91	0.68	1.02	0.45
	PIT	♂	13.32	18.34	9.67	0.65	1.21	0.35
	SRB-OUT	♀	2.02	3.05	1.34	0.58	0.83	0.41
	SRB-OUT	♂	1.56	2.16	1.13	0.03	0.06	0.01
Goden	BP	♀	5.58	10.00	3.11	0.23	0.35	0.15
DS-2012	BP	♂	1.37	2.45	0.77	0.36	0.59	0.22
	SRB-IN	♀	0.45	0.81	0.25	0.24	0.37	0.15
	SRB-IN	♂	0.12	0.22	0.06	0.41	0.68	0.25
	PIT	♀	0.28	0.55	0.14	0.20	0.22	0.10
	PIT	♂	0.09	0.27	0.03	0.1	0.24	0.04
	SRB-OUT	♀	0.12	0.23	0.06	0.27	0.54	0.14
	SRB-OUT	♂	0.01	0.03	0	0.63	1.41	0.28

SRB-IN Sticky resting box indoors, SRB-OUT Sticky resting box outdoors, BP Back Pack aspirators indoors, PIT Pit shelters outdoors, RS-2011 July-December 2011 sampling, DS-2012 April -June 2012 sampling.
♀= mosquito females, ♂= mosquito males.

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