Tur Carlos, Plá Ignacio, Argilés-Herrero Rafael, Salvador-Herranz Gustavo, Almenar David
Empresa de Transformación Agraria S.A., S.M.E., M.P. (TRAGSA). Avenida de la Industria 26, 46980 Paterna, Spain.
Escuela de Doctorado, Universidad Católica de Valencia San Vicente Mártir, 46001 Valencia, Spain.
Insects. 2022 Feb 9;13(2):178. doi: 10.3390/insects13020178.
Integrated vector control programs that use a Sterile Insect Technique approach require the production and release of large numbers of high quality, sterile male insects. In pilot projects conducted worldwide, sterile males are usually kept in containers at low densities until their manual release on the ground. Although the quality of the released insects is high, these containers are only suitable for small-scale projects, given the fact that the manual labor required for release is significant and therefore untenable in large-scale projects. This study will compare and contrast the quality of the males reared in the proposed "all-in-one" containers which considerably reduce both the handling of the insects and the manual labor required for release. As a result, project costs are lower. The design of these "all-in-one" containers incorporates two important features: ventilation and the density of the vertical resting surface. Having evaluated both features, it can be concluded that ventilation does not directly affect the quality of the insects, at least in the range of dimensions tested. However, the quality of the male insects is reduced in relation to an increase in the number of mosquitoes, with 500 being the optimum quantity of mosquitoes per "all-in-one" container.
采用昆虫不育技术方法的综合病媒控制项目需要大量生产并释放高质量的不育雄虫。在全球开展的试点项目中，不育雄虫通常低密度饲养在容器中，直至人工释放到地面。尽管释放的昆虫质量很高，但鉴于释放所需的人工成本很高，在大规模项目中难以维持，所以这些容器仅适用于小规模项目。本研究将比较和对比在拟议的“一体化”容器中饲养的雄虫质量，这种容器可大幅减少昆虫的处理和释放所需的人工。因此，项目成本更低。这些“一体化”容器的设计包含两个重要特征：通风和垂直栖息面的密度。在对这两个特征进行评估后，可以得出结论，通风至少在测试的尺寸范围内不会直接影响昆虫质量。然而，雄虫质量会随着蚊子数量的增加而降低，每个“一体化”容器中蚊子的最佳数量为500只。
