2014
DOI: 10.1111/tmi.12341
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Survival of larvivorous fish used for biological control of Aedes aegypti (Diptera: Culicidae) combined with different larvicides

Abstract: Abstractobjective To evaluate combinations of larvicides and fish which are predators of larvae of Aedes aegypti, namely Betta splendens, Trichogaster trichopterus and Poecilia reticulata.methods We used 15 water tanks with a capacity of 250 litres of water. In 10 tanks, larvicideTemephos, Bti and Novaluron -was added, the other five contained only one specimen of fish and unchlorinated water. The fish were monitored for a week without changing the water, and their survival recorded on a form. An estimate of t… Show more

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“…Even so, the insecticidal effects of natural insecticides are generally short, so that the application needs to be repeated frequently (Trewin et al, 2017). One of the alternative methods to reduce mosquito vector of DHF is to use the biological vector control method by using larvivorous fish (Paiva et al, 2014;MOH, 2010).…”
Section: Resultsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Even so, the insecticidal effects of natural insecticides are generally short, so that the application needs to be repeated frequently (Trewin et al, 2017). One of the alternative methods to reduce mosquito vector of DHF is to use the biological vector control method by using larvivorous fish (Paiva et al, 2014;MOH, 2010).…”
Section: Resultsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Results show an increase in mosquito mortality of 80-90%. 39 However, it was observed that a research carried out in Madeira Island, using the same strategy mentioned above, did not obtain such satisfactory results, since there was no considerable reduction in the number of Aedes aegypti females, however, there was a reduction in the number of eggs laid in the ovitraps. 59 It has been identified that the use of entomopathogenic fungus Metarhizium anisopliae, in association with neem oil, is capable of infecting from the egg to the adult phase of the mosquito.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Other useful strategies that can reduce the development of insecticide-resistant mosquitoes target the larvae stage through the use of larvicides such as larviciding with larvivorous fish and bacterial larvicide [40][41][42][43][45][46][47][48].…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…For simplicity, we assume that the use of bednets reduces the contact between mosquitoes and humans and that the mosquito population is reduced by the mosquito-reduction strategies (larvicides and adulticides), which we assume in this case chemical-based insecticides. However, there are other environmental friendly larvaciding methods that can be used to target the larvae stage of the mosquitoes, such as larvivorous fish which prey on the larvae [40][41][42][43][44] and bacterial larvicide which causes the mosquitoes to starve to death once they ingest the spores of the bacterial larvicide [45][46][47][48]. In a future study, we will incorporate the insecticide capacity of the bednets [49] and the actions and kinetics of these larvacide methods.…”
Section: Optimal Control Problemsmentioning
confidence: 99%