The mosquito electrocuting trap as an exposure-free method for measuring human-biting rates by Aedes mosquito vectors

Table 1 Abundance of mosquito species collected by MET and BGS traps

Species	Mosquito electrocuting trap (MET)				BG-Sentinel (BGS) trap				Grand total
Species	♂	♀ Unfed	♀ Fed	Total	♂	♀ Unfed	♀ Fed	Total	Grand total
Aedes aegypti	100	99	19	218	93	91	27	211	429
Culex quinquefasciatus	496	238	44	778	960	345	77	1382	2160
Aedes angustivittatus	4	38	6	48	0	24	2	26	74
Limatus durhami	0	22	0	22	0	42	0	42	64
Psorophora ferox	0	1	2	3	0	1	0	1	4
Unknown	0	5	3	8	0	5	1	6	14
Total				1077				1668	2745

Notes: Mosquito species abundances are split by sex and feeding status of females. The total sampling effort with the two METs was 229 h, while for BGS traps was 270 h over the 12 days of sampling

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