Darriet Frédéric. (2018). Synergistic effect of fertilizer and plant material combinations on the development of Aedes aegypti (Diptera : Culicidae) and Anopheles gambiae (Diptera : Culicidae) mosquitoes. Journal of Medical Entomology, 55 (2), p. 496-500. ISSN 0022-2585.
Titre du document
Synergistic effect of fertilizer and plant material combinations on the development of Aedes aegypti (Diptera : Culicidae) and Anopheles gambiae (Diptera : Culicidae) mosquitoes
Journal of Medical Entomology, 2018,
55 (2), p. 496-500 ISSN 0022-2585
Chemical fertilizers are used everywhere, which often pollute the breeding sites of mosquitoes. In this laboratory study, the consequences on Aedes aegypti (L.) (Diptera: Culicidae) and Anopheles gambiae (Giles) (Diptera: Culicidae) of water-containing plant matter (PM) alone, or in association with an NPK type of fertilizer (PM+NPK), were evaluated. To obtain a 20% imaginal emergence of An. gambiae (IEt20), the bioassays carried out with PM have evidenced that its larvae need four times as much food as for Ae. aegypti larvae. The PM+NPK combinations significantly improve the survival rates of both mosquitoes multiplying the percentages of imaginal emergence by 1.7-3 (synergistic effect). The log-probit analysis of the adult emergence also reveals that the environments containing fertilizers accelerates by two to four times the development of the mosquito larvae.
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Sciences fondamentales / Techniques d'analyse et de recherche [020]
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Entomologie médicale / Parasitologie / Virologie [052]
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Sciences du monde végétal [076]
