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Published on: October 15, 2014
Description of three practical and inexpensive devices for the collection of mosquitoes and other small insects
Carlos Brisola Marcondes1, Jeronimo Alencar, Valdir Queiroz Balbino
1Departamento de Microbiologia e Parasitologia, Centro de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, 88040-900 Florianópolis, Santa Catarina, Brazil.
Abstract:
Three new devices for collecting and maintaining mosquitoes and other small insects are described. A suction tube, composed of two pieces of plastic transparent tube, the narrower fitted in the wider, with the mouth protected by the use of voile, is cheap and practical and can be transported around the neck. A 900-ml plastic transparent box is utilized for the restraint of sucked insects and, with the adaptation of two pieces of plastic tube, as a suction chamber.

