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Experimental Hut Techniques for Evaluating Insecticides

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The assessment of the numbers of mosquitoes resting inside huts by aspirator or pyrethrum space spray collections has been outlined in Chapter 3 and the use of exit traps fitted to windows, doors or eaves to collect mosquitoes leaving huts has been fully described in Chapter 5. The present short account concerns the application of these methods for evaluating the efficiency of spraying houses with residual insecticides and using insecticide-impregnated bed-nets and their effects on mosquito behaviour.

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Service, M.W. (1993). Experimental Hut Techniques for Evaluating Insecticides. In: Mosquito Ecology. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-1868-2_8

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