Sentence examples for the ovitrap from inspiring English sources
noun
A device that resembles the preferred breeding site of mosquitoes, used to attract them and capture their eggs in scientific studies.
The water in the ovitrap was frequently checked for hatched mosquito larvae and/or pupae, and Bti: Bacilus thuringhiensis var.
The underlying assumption is that two separate ecological processes are occurring: presence of eggs is driven by the mosquito choice of the ovitrap for ovipositing, and the abundance of eggs is driven by the number of females that chose the ovitrap.
When Ae. albopictus was confirmed as both eggs and larva, the ovitraps were removed, as the aim was to detect species presence but not to evaluate density.
The total number of eggs collected from the ovitraps per week varied from 281 (week 12) to 2,920 (week 1) for the duration of the study.
The drawback in both these instances was that a large number of vector control officers were required to inspect and maintain the ovitraps.
There was a significant correlation between the adult mosquitoes caught in Gravitraps and the number of eggs deposited into the ovitraps each week (Pearson correlation r = 0.607, P < 0.05).
The most common mosquito trap is the lethal ovitrap.
The highest ovitrap positivity was 78%% (76 79 %) in SA2, while the lowest one was 38%% (36 38 %) in SA8.
However, the most commonly used ovitrap, the CDC gravid trap, is not appropriate for capturing Ae. albopictus [15], [16].
The distance between ovitraps and the border of the campus was assessed based on the hypothesis that mosquitoes came from outside the campus [ 8].
This result is important to guide the implementation of ovitrap surveillance systems, but also presents a challenge due to the high sampling effort required.
