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Control of Aedes albopictus with attractive toxic sugar baits (ATSB) and potential impact on non-target organisms in St. Augustine, Florida

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The purpose of this study was to test the efficacy of bait stations and foliar applications containing attractive toxic sugar baits (ATSB) and eugenol to control Aedes albopictus. At the same time, the potential impact of these control methods was evaluated on non-target organisms. The study was conducted at five tire sites in St. Augustine, Florida. A. albopictus populations were significantly reduced with ATSB–eugenol applications applied directly to non-flowering vegetation and as bait stations compared with non-attractive sugar baits and control. The application of ATSB made to non-flowering vegetation resulted in more significant reductions of mosquito populations compared to the application of ATSB presented in a bait station. Over 5.5 % of the non-targets were stained in the flowering vegetation application site. However, when the attractive sugar bait application was made to non-flowering vegetation or presented in bait stations, the impact on non-target insects was very low for all non-target orders as only 0.6 % of the individual insects were stained with the dye from the sugar solutions, respectively. There were no significant differences between the staining of mosquitoes collected in flowering vegetation (206/1000) or non-flowering vegetation (242/1000) sites during the non-target evaluation. Our field studies support the use of eugenol as an active ingredient for controlling the dengue vector A. albopictus when used as an ATSB toxin and demonstrates potential use in sub-tropical and tropical environments for dengue control.

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Acknowledgments

We would like to thank the staff and commissioners of the Anastasia Mosquito Control District for supporting this research. The research reported in this publication was supported by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases of the National Institutes of Health under Award Number R01AI100968. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institutes of Health.

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  1. Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, Bruce Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion, Haifa, 34995, Israel

    Edita E. Revay & Yosef Schlein

  2. Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, IMRIC, Kuvin Centre for the Study of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, Faculty of Medicine, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, 91120, Israel

    Gunter C. Müller

  3. Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL, 33136, USA

    Whitney A. Qualls, Diana P. Naranjo, Kristopher L. Arheart & John C. Beier

  4. Center for Medical, Agricultural, and Veterinary Entomology, United States Department of Agriculture, Gainesville, FL, USA

    Daniel L. Kline

  5. Department of Zoology, George S. Wise Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, 69978, Israel

    Vasiliy D. Kravchenko & Zoya Yefremova

  6. Ul’yanovsk State Pedagogical University, pl. 100-letya, 4, Ulyanosvk, 432700, Russia

    Zoya Yefremova

  7. Bavarian Natural History Collections (Staatliche Naturwissenschaftliche Sammlungen Bayerns, SNSB), Munich, Germany

    Axel Hausmann

  8. Bavarian State Collection of Zoology (ZSM), Munich, Germany

    Axel Hausmann

  9. Anastasia Mosquito Control District, 500 Old Beach Road, St. Augustine, FL, 32080, USA

    Rui-De Xue

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Revay, E.E., Müller, G.C., Qualls, W.A. et al. Control of Aedes albopictus with attractive toxic sugar baits (ATSB) and potential impact on non-target organisms in St. Augustine, Florida. Parasitol Res 113, 73–79 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00436-013-3628-4

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