BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE OF ADULT ANOPHELES QUADRIMACULATUS AND AEDES ALBOPICTUS TO DIFFERENT CARBOHYDRATES IN AN OLFACTOMETER

Abstract

Eleven different carbohydrates were evaluated to determine the behavioral response of adult Anopheles quadrimaculatus Say and Aedes albopictus Skuse using an olfactometer. The carbohydrates used in the study are arabinose, fructose, glucose, maltose, melezitose, meliniose, raffinose, rhamnose, sucrose, trehalose, and turanose. The results showed that both species of mosquitoes regardless of the sex had significantly higher attraction to arabinose, maltose, meliniose, and trehalose than other 7 carbohydrates tested. Both sexes and both species responded to maltose and trehalose in considerable numbers, and the least responses were to sucrose except by male Ae. albopictus. These findings may provide insights to the development of more effective sugar-based toxic baits for the operational application in mosquito control programs.