{"title":"Covers","authors":"","doi":"10.2987/1943-6270-39.1.i","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2987/1943-6270-39.1.i","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":17192,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the American Mosquito Control Association","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134950103","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jason R Hunt, Michele M Rehbein, Roger C Viadero, Catherine L Miller
{"title":"Distribution of Invasive Aedes Mosquitoes in West-Central Illinois, 2014-18: Record Updates for Aedes japonicus and Ae. albopictus.","authors":"Jason R Hunt, Michele M Rehbein, Roger C Viadero, Catherine L Miller","doi":"10.2987/22-7105","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2987/22-7105","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A comprehensive surveillance of Aedes mosquitoes in west-central Illinois has not been conducted in recent years, resulting in incomplete distribution records for several Illinois counties. As of 2014, out of 102 Illinois counties, active populations of Ae. japonicus had been confirmed in 15 counties, and Ae. albopictus confirmed in 34 counties. The Miller laboratory at Western Illinois University (WIU) began the WIU Vector Biology Initiative (WIU-VBI) in 2014 to address the lack of mosquito surveillance in west-central Illinois. Through this effort, the presence of Ae. japonicus was confirmed for the 1st time in Fulton, Hancock, and Schuyler counties, IL, from 2014 to 2018. Actively breeding populations were confirmed in Cass, Fulton, McDonough, and Schuyler counties, IL. Additionally, Ae. albopictus was observed for the 1st time in Cass, Fulton, Hancock, McDonough, and Schuyler counties, IL, in 2016 and 2017, with active breeding populations in Cass and McDonough counties, IL.</p>","PeriodicalId":17192,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the American Mosquito Control Association","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9827112","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"First Records of Aedeomyia squamipennis in Palm Beach County, Florida, USA.","authors":"Steven Fazekas, David Livoti, Lawrence Reeves","doi":"10.2987/22-7097","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2987/22-7097","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Continuous surveillance, trained personnel, and coordination with other agencies are critical elements of effective nuisance and vector mosquito control. Palm Beach County Mosquito Control, FL, has used routine surveillance to make control decisions and note changes in mosquito populations since the 1940s. In the fall and winter of 2021-2022, Palm Beach County Mosquito Control's surveillance program detected the presence of Aedeomyia squamipennis. This represented the first collection of specimens of Ad. squamipennis in Palm Beach County and the second finding of this species beyond the initial site of detection in Miami-Dade County, FL. Identity was confirmed by morphology and DNA sequencing. Sequenced Ad. squamipennis specimens collected in Palm Beach County were identical (100% sequence similarity) to specimens collected and sequenced from Homestead, Miami-Dade County in 2016. It is suspected that Ad. squamipennis has expanded its range northward from Miami-Dade County into Palm Beach County, a distance of approximately 140 km.</p>","PeriodicalId":17192,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the American Mosquito Control Association","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9460680","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Christopher L Swab, Curtis R Best, Frank H Cornine, David R Segal, Sam R Telford
{"title":"Use of a Miniature Optical Engine for Age Classifying Wild-Caught Coquillettidia perturbans in the Shortwave Infrared Region.","authors":"Christopher L Swab, Curtis R Best, Frank H Cornine, David R Segal, Sam R Telford","doi":"10.2987/22-7079","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2987/22-7079","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS), coupled with modeling and chemometrics, has been used to age grade anopheline and aedine mosquitoes; however, NIRS has not been widely used in field studies to assign mosquitoes to age classes. One reason is the relative cost of NIRS spectrometers. We developed a spectrometer system incorporating a miniature optical engine generating spectra in the shortwave infrared region, calibrated it using laboratory-reared Aedes aegypti, and evaluated its utility to age grade wild-caught cattail mosquitoes, Coquillettidia perturbans. As a refinement of the method, we compared a scoring system based on spectral data point outliers with the typical chemometrics that have been used with NIRS. This inexpensive system (<$3,600) could reliably discriminate between age cohorts of mosquitoes and has the potential for more detailed age grading. Laboratory-reared Ae. aegypti demonstrated a decline in the fraction of spectral outliers with age, and field-collected Cq. perturbans similarly demonstrated such a decline (greater in newly emerged mosquitoes) with date of collection, consistent with their univoltine demography in Massachusetts. We conclude that an economical NIRS system may be able to provide a quantitative dichotomous (young versus old) assessment of field-collected mosquito samples, and thereby may be used to complement abundance-based analyses of the efficacy of adulticiding applications.</p>","PeriodicalId":17192,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the American Mosquito Control Association","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9456981","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Karen L Dobson, Kai Blore, Jennifer A Henke, Kim Y Hung, Tim Morgan, Tanya Posey, Sokanary Sun, Olivia Sypes, Nicolas P Tremblay, Stephen L Dobson
{"title":"Satellite Rearing of Aedes Mosquito Eggs: Synchronized Empirical Test of a Novel Mass Rearing Model.","authors":"Karen L Dobson, Kai Blore, Jennifer A Henke, Kim Y Hung, Tim Morgan, Tanya Posey, Sokanary Sun, Olivia Sypes, Nicolas P Tremblay, Stephen L Dobson","doi":"10.2987/22-7104","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2987/22-7104","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Mosquito suppression strategies based on \"rear and release\" of male mosquitoes are attracting renewed interest from governments, municipalities, and private businesses. These include irradiation-based sterile insect technique, Wolbachia-based technologies, and genetic modification. Each of these approaches requires the mass rearing and release of adult male mosquitoes, which typically is accomplished via a rearing facility near the release site. Although some release programs have relied on centralized rearing and shipment of adult males, adult male mosquitoes are relatively fragile, and their fitness can be diminished by temperature fluctuations, humidity, nutritional deficiencies, and other stresses that occur during shipment. Furthermore, expensive, expedited shipment is typically used to maximize the amount of adult lifetime in the field following the release. In contrast, Aedes aegypti and Ae. albopictus eggs can be desiccated and stored for long periods. They are small, and many millions of eggs can be shipped without specialized environmental conditions and using less expensive means. Here we examine a model in which mosquito eggs are centrally produced and then mailed to satellite rearing facilities. As a control, a replicate set of eggs was reared at the factory of origin. At each of the rearing sites, cloud-based software was used to track and compare rearing at the different locations. The results demonstrate similar rearing outcomes (i.e., egg hatch, immature development, and number of adult males) at each of the different sites for both species. We discuss the outcome in relation to downstream applications and potential future studies.</p>","PeriodicalId":17192,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the American Mosquito Control Association","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9827113","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Aedes pertinax, A Lost and Found New Species Record for Monroe County, Florida.","authors":"Michael Boehmler, Lawrence J Hribar","doi":"10.2987/22-7083","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2987/22-7083","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Aedes pertinax, a little-studied tropical mosquito that has found its way into the USA, has recently been discovered to have existed in the Florida Keys for almost 25 years. A 2021 collection of Ae. pertinax adult females in Key Largo, FL, sparked a retrospective search for stored specimens collected in 1998 on Big Pine Key, FL. Positive identification of the specimens from the 1998 collection confirmed the specimens to be Ae. pertinax, predating the first reported specimen in the USA by 13 years.</p>","PeriodicalId":17192,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the American Mosquito Control Association","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10491208","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"AMCA Memorial Lecture Honoring Lewis T. Nielsen, PhD.","authors":"Sammie Lee Dickson, Mark S Blackmore","doi":"10.2987/22-7101","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2987/22-7101","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":17192,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the American Mosquito Control Association","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10545051","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Muhammad Farooq, Lea Bangonan, Rui-DE Xue, Asghar Talbalaghi
{"title":"Evaluation of Essential Oils as Spatial Repellents Against Aedes aegypti in an Olfactometer.","authors":"Muhammad Farooq, Lea Bangonan, Rui-DE Xue, Asghar Talbalaghi","doi":"10.2987/22-7090","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2987/22-7090","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Spatial repellents are becoming an integral part of the integrated mosquito management and are considered another tool to prevent mosquito-borne diseases. They are also gaining attention as a potential disease transmission breaking strategy. Current vector control practices are losing their viability due to resistance development in arthropods to synthetic pesticides. Economic feasibility of developing natural products is driving towards search for natural products as spatial repellents evidenced by increase in number of their studies. Different volumes (0.0625, 0.125, 0.25, 0.5 ml) of clove oil, eucalyptus oil, geraniol, Immortelle oil, lemongrass oil, and RepelCare (mixture of turmeric oil and eucalyptus oil) were evaluated for their repellency against Aedes aegypti, replicating each test 5 times. Biogents lure and fresh air were used as control. The evaluations were conducted in a True Choice olfactometer by passing air carrying 2 vapors from 2 different products, i.e., an attractant, repellent, or clean air, through 2 chambers and providing mosquitoes an option to move to the chamber of their choice. For each run, 24-h-starved 15-20 female Ae. aegypti were released into the mosquito release chamber and number of mosquitoes in the 2-choice chambers and the mosquito release chamber were counted after 15 min and recorded. The difference in mosquitoes between 2 chambers indicated presence or absence of repellency. All the natural oils and RepelCare provided ≥70% repellency, except for Immortelle oil which had no repellency. All repellents tested except Immortelle and lemongrass oils showed increase in repellency with increase in application volume. However, minimum application volume to be effective was different for each oil. Lemongrass is the only oil which showed a peak at 0.125-ml volume.</p>","PeriodicalId":17192,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the American Mosquito Control Association","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10853929","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Maria J Dantur Juri, Edecio I Villarroel Martínez, Paul L Duque, Marina Stein, Maria Anice Mureb Sallum
{"title":"New Records of Mosquitoes in Bolivia and Northwestern Argentina.","authors":"Maria J Dantur Juri, Edecio I Villarroel Martínez, Paul L Duque, Marina Stein, Maria Anice Mureb Sallum","doi":"10.2987/22-7085","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2987/22-7085","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Two mosquito species, Culex (Culex) hepperi and Culex (Culex) maxi are reported for the first time for Bolivia, in Tarija department. Aedes (Ochlerotatus) stigmaticus and Mansonia (Mansonia) indubitans are the first records in Aniceto Arce province, in Tarija department, southern Bolivia. In addition, Aedes (Protomacleaya) alboapicus and Culex (Phytotelmatomyia) renatoi are reported for the first time in the northwestern region of Argentina. Anopheles (Nyssorrhynchus) nuneztovari s.l. is reported for the first time in Jujuy and Tucumán provinces, and Aedes (Ochlerotatus) raymundi and Anopheles (Anopheles) neomaculipalpus are the first reports in Tucumán province. The 3 species are extending their geographical distribution in these provinces. Data on the collection localities and comments about the medical relevance of some species are also presented.</p>","PeriodicalId":17192,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the American Mosquito Control Association","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10488201","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Zoltán Kenyeres, Lőrinc Andrási, Péter Kovács, András Márkus, Tamás Sáringer-Kenyeres
{"title":"The Efficiency of Biogents Sentinel 2.0 Trapping and Human-Landing Catching Methods to Calculate Human Biting Rates.","authors":"Zoltán Kenyeres, Lőrinc Andrási, Péter Kovács, András Márkus, Tamás Sáringer-Kenyeres","doi":"10.2987/22-7078","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2987/22-7078","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>To calculate human biting rates for various mosquito species, we performed simultaneous collections for 15 wk at 6 ecologically variable sites in Hungary. Of the dominant species, the relative abundance of Aedes vexans, Ae. sticticus, and Coquillettidia richiardii showed a significant positive correlation between CO2 + Biogents lure and human landing catch (HLC). The relative abundance of Culex pipiens was significantly lower in the HLC samples than in the CO2 + BG lure samples. Of the invasive species, Aedes korecius was found more frequently in HLC, while Ae. japonicus was more common in CO2 + BG lure samples. Estimated human biting rates, determined with the 2 collection methods, showed no significant differences at high mosquito density (100-120 bites/h/person), but there was considerable variation at low mosquito biting rates. Therefore, correcting the CO2 + BG lure trapping data to include only species biting humans provides estimates approaching the values of the HLC. Our study confirmed that while HLC is the gold standard method for determining the human biting rate, provided appropriate data adjustments are made, trapping methods performing automated data collection can provide similar data while reducing the exposure of the data collector.</p>","PeriodicalId":17192,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the American Mosquito Control Association","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10853447","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}