Assessment of synthetic floral-based attractants and sugar baits to capture male and female Aedes aegypti (Diptera: Culicidae)

Table 2 Attraction assay results. The mean percentage (± SE) of dead Ae. aegypti observed in the tent attraction assays with blue abdomens indicating ingestion of the lure. Twenty mosquitoes released for 18 h (n = 5). P-values determined following Kruskal-Wallis test

Treatment	Males		Nulliparous		Gravid
	Mean %	P = 0.01	Mean %	P = 0.53	Mean %	P = 0.11
Control	1.0 (1.0)		1.0 (1.0)		0.4 (0.2)
Acetophenone	0.0 (0.0)		0.0 (0.0)		0.4 (0.2)
Guava-mango	13.0 (8.2)		1.0 (1.0)		0.0 (0.0)
Phenylacetaldehyde	0.0 (0.0)		0.0 (0.0)		0.0 (0.0)
Guava-mango + phenylacetaldehyde	2.0 (1.2)		0.0 (0.0)		0.0 (0.0)
PLPA	0.0 (0.0)		0.0 (0.0)		0.0 (0.0)

Abbreviation: PLPA phenylacetaldehyde + linalool oxide + phenylethyl alcohol + acetophenone

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