Sample name: Orange Walk Town (Mosquito Magnet traps, pre-storm)

Reference: M. G. Morrow, R. N. Johnson, J. Polanco, and D. M. Claborn. 2010. Mosquito vector abundance immediately before and after Tropical Storms Alma and Arthur, northern Belize, 2008. Revista Panamericana de Salud Pùblica 28(1):19-24 [ER 2294]

Habitat: tropical/subtropical dry broadleaf forest

Altered habitat: pasture

Substrate: ground surface

MAT: 24.4

MAP: 1195.0

Habitat comments: "approximately 607 ha of cattle pasture bordered by mixed brush, marsh, and sugarcane habitat"
climate data based on station 76750 (Chetumal)

Life forms: mosquitoes

Sampling methods: no design,baited,other traps

Sample size: 2274 individuals

Years: 2008

Days: 4

Nets or traps: 4

Net or trap nights: 16

Sampling comments: sampling was carried out with four heat- and CO2-baited "Mosquito Magnet® traps... sheltered from rainfall—in this case inside two-person tents... run nightly, 12 hours per sampling day (1800 to 0600 h), four nights before the first storm of the wet season (25–28 May)... The tents were spaced 20 m apart and arranged in a line parallel to and approx- imately 100 m from a local marsh"

Sample number: 2400

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2016-12-26 20:27:32

Modified: 2016-12-26 09:27:32