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Table 1 Sex differences among mosquitoes collected in the three mosquito traps in the laboratory

From: Comparative evaluation of the efficiency of the BG-Sentinel trap, CDC light trap and Mosquito-oviposition trap for the surveillance of vector mosquitoes

Traps

No. of release times

Ae. albopictus

Cx. quinquefasciatus

An. sinensis

Male

Female

Male

Female

Male

Female

BGS trap

8

7.59 ± 0.20a

8.78 ± 0.17b

7.50 ± 0.19a

8.65 ± 0.22b

1.26 ± 0.31a

1.53 ± 0.24a

CDC Light trap

8

3.30 ± 0.27a

3.15 ± 0.16a

4.09 ± 0.24a

3.29 ± 0.41a

4.77 ± 0.44a

3.23 ± 0.25b

Mosq-ovitrap

8

3.70 ± 0.31a

0.78 ± 0.24b

0.48 ± 0.36a

0.43 ± 0.31a

0.11 ± 0.13a

0.13 ± 0.13a

  1. Rows with different letters are significantly different from each other (P < 0.05). Mosquito abundance is square-root transformed and values are the mean ± standard error
  2. Abbreviations: M male, F female