Eave tubes for malaria control in Africa: Videographic observations of mosquito behaviour in Tanzania with a simple and rugged video surveillance system.

Background: Eave tubes are novel mosquito control devices that help to protect households against malaria vectors and other mosquitoes. They are installed in the upper walls of human habitations after the eaves have been closed. Mosquitoes trying to enter through these tubes are intercepted by electrostatic netting that can be treated with a variety of insecticides.

Eave tubes for malaria control in Africa: an introduction.

In spite of massive progress in the control of African malaria since the turn of the century, there is a clear and recognized need for additional tools beyond long-lasting insecticide-treated bed nets (LLINs) and indoor residual spraying (IRS) of insecticides, to progress towards elimination. Moreover, widespread and intensifying insecticide resistance requires alternative control agents and delivery systems to enable development of effective insecticide resistance management strategies. This series of articles presents a novel concept for malaria vector control, the 'eave tube', which may fulfil these important criteria.

Size Exclusion High Performance Liquid Chromatography: Re-Discovery of a Rapid and Versatile Method for Clean-Up and Fractionation in Chemical Ecology.

Solvent extraction of bioactive molecules from glands, tissues, or whole organisms is a common first step in chemoecological studies. Co-extraction of a surplus of high boiling materials such as triacylglycerides (TAGs) and other lipids with higher molecular weight might hamper the identification of volatile or medium-volatile semiochemicals by high resolution chromatographic and spectroscopic techniques. Therefore, effective clean-up procedures are needed to separate potential semiochemicals from the accompanying materials.

Deciphering the signature of cuticular lipids with contact sex pheromone function in a parasitic wasp.

The surface of insects is covered by a complex mixture of cuticular hydrocarbons (CHCs) to prevent desiccation. In many species these lipids also have communicative functions, but often it is unknown which components are crucial for the behavioural response. Furthermore, it is often ignored that polar lipids also occur on the insects' cuticle and might interact with CHCs.