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Table 2 Summary of recaptures by collection method over the four experiments

From: The use of sequential mark-release-recapture experiments to estimate population size, survival and dispersal of male mosquitoes of the  Anopheles gambiae complex in Bana, a west African humid savannah village

 

Unmarked

Number of marked recapturesa

Marked by methodc (%)

Total recapturedd (%)

October 2013 (wet season)

 Swarm

4454

34 (21, 8, 5)b

0.76

1.00

 PSC

1162

9 (7, 1, 1)

0.77

0.26

 Clay pot

227

1 (1, 0, 0)

0.44

0.03

 All

5843

44 (29, 9, 6)

 

1.30

May 2014 (dry season)

 Swarm

211

29 (22, 3, 4)

12.08

0.55

 PSC

139

16 (10, 2, 4)

10.32

0.30

 Clay pot

13

4 (2, 1, 1)

23.53

0.08

 All

363

49 (34, 6, 9)

 

0.93

September 2014 (wet season)

 Swarm

7641

72 (52, 5, 15)

0.93

1.40

 PSC

938

10 (8, 0, 2)

1.05

0.20

 Clay pot

235

4 (4, 0, 0)

1.67

0.08

 All

8814

86 (64, 5, 17)

 

1.70

April 2015 (dry season)

 Swarm

1421

18 (1, 3, 14)

1.25

0.30

 PSC

228

2 (0, 0, 2)

0.87

0.03

 Clay pot

26

2 (0, 0, 2)

7.14

0.03

 All

1675

22 (1, 3, 18)

 

0.36

  1. aMarked (No.) is the number of marked mosquitoes recaptured by each method
  2. bNumbers in parentheses are recaptures from release points: A (centre of the village), B (outside the village) and C (edge of the village), respectively
  3. c‘Marked by method’ is the percentage of marked mosquitoes in the catch of each collection method (irrespective of dye colour)
  4. dTotal recaptured is the percentage of marked mosquitoes recaptured by each collection method from all released (irrespective of dye colour)