Agricultural Research Service Center for Medical, Agricultural, & Veterinary Entomology
2 ARTICLES PUBLISHED IN JoVE
Environment
Visualizing Efficacy of Pesticides Against Disease Vector Mosquitoes in the Field
Seth C. Britch 1, Kenneth J. Linthicum 1, Robert L. Aldridge 1, Frances V. Golden 1, Todd W. Walker 2
1Mosquito & Fly Research Unit, United States Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service Center for Medical, Agricultural, & Veterinary Entomology, 2East Baton Rouge Mosquito Abatement and Rodent Control
The efficacy of public health pesticides targeting nuisance and disease-vector insects is not uniform across different ecological zones. Here we present a system of techniques using captive vector insects as sentinels for pesticide efficacy to derive electronic maps supporting the standard evaluation of pesticides across multiple environments.
Biology
Preparing Irradiated and Marked Male Aedes aegypti Mosquitoes for Release in an Operational Sterile Insect Technique Program
Bianca J. Moreno 1, Robert L. Aldridge 1, Seth C. Britch 1, Barbara E. Bayer 1, Jedidiah Kline 1, Daniel A. Hahn 2, Chao Chen 2, Kenneth J. Linthicum 1
1US Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service Center for Medical, Agricultural, & Veterinary Entomology, 2Department of Entomology and Nematology, University of Florida
The sterile insect technique (SIT) is used to control specific, medically important mosquito populations that may be resistant to chemical controls. Here, we describe a method of mass rearing and preparation of sterile male mosquitoes for release in an operational SIT program targeting the Aedes aegypti mosquito.
