ArticleJournal of the Royal Society, Interface2016
A novel video-tracking system to quantify the behaviour of nocturnal mosquitoes attacking human hosts in the field.
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- Inferring the epidemiological benefit of indoor vector control interventions against malaria from mosquito data.Nature communications · 2022Pooled it
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- Revealing complex mosquito behaviour: a review of current automated video tracking systems suitable for tracking mosquitoes in the field.Parasites & vectors · 2025Review
- Double vision: 2D and 3D mosquito trajectories can be as valuable for behaviour analysis via machine learning.Parasites & vectors · 2024Article
- Video-trackedRoyal Society open science · 2024Article
- Behavioural responses ofCurrent research in parasitology & vector-borne diseases · 2024Article
- Vectorial competence, insecticide resistance in Anopheles funestus and operational implications for malaria vector control strategies in Benin Republic.Malaria journal · 2023Review
- Insecticidal roof barriers mounted on untreated bed nets can be as effective against Anopheles gambiae as regular insecticide-treated bed nets.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Impacts of dual active-ingredient bed nets on the behavioural responses of pyrethroid resistant Anopheles gambiae determined by room-scale infrared video tracking.Malaria journal · 2023Article
- The Shockwè trap: a human-baited exposure-free device for surveillance and behaviour studies of anthropophilic vectors.Wellcome open research · 2023Article
- Effects of indoor air movement and ambient temperature on mosquito (Anopheles gambiae) behaviour around bed nets: implications for malaria prevention initiatives.Malaria journal · 2021Article
- Review and Meta-Analysis of the Evidence for Choosing between Specific Pyrethroids for Programmatic Purposes.Insects · 2021Review
- From the factory to the field: considerations of product characteristics for insecticide-treated net (ITN) bioefficacy testing.Malaria journal · 2021Review
- A minimal 3D model of mosquito flight behaviour around the human baited bed net.Malaria journal · 2021Article
- Mosquito Host Seeking in 3D Using a Versatile Climate-Controlled Wind Tunnel System.Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience · 2021Article
- Diffuse retro-reflective imaging for improved video tracking of mosquitoes at human baited bednets.Royal Society open science · 2020Article
- Quantifying late-stage host-seeking behaviour of Anopheles gambiae at the insecticidal net interface using a baited-box bioassay.Malaria journal · 2020Article
- Barrier bednets target malaria vectors and expand the range of usable insecticides.Nature microbiology · 2020Article
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Abstract
Many vectors of malaria and other infections spend most of their adult life within human homes, the environment where they bloodfeed and rest, and where control has been most successful. Yet, knowledge of peri-domestic mosquito behaviour is limited, particularly how mosquitoes find and attack human hosts or how insecticides impact on behaviour. This is partly because technology for tracking mosquitoes in their natural habitats, traditional dwellings in disease-endemic countries, has never been available. We describe a sensing device that enables observation and recording of nocturnal mosquitoes attacking humans with or without a bed net, in the laboratory and in rural Africa. The device addresses requirements for sub-millimetre resolution over a 2.0 × 1.2 × 2.0 m volume while using minimum irradiance. Data processing strategies to extract individual mosquito trajectories and algorithms to describe behaviour during host/net interactions are introduced. Results from UK laboratory and Tanzanian field tests showed that Culex quinquefasciatus activity was higher and focused on the bed net roof when a human host was present, in colonized and wild populations. Both C. quinquefasciatus and Anopheles gambiae exhibited similar behavioural modes, with average flight velocities varying by less than 10%. The system offers considerable potential for investigations in vector biology and many other fields.
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