Abstract
Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever (DHF) is still one of the major public health problems in the world and Indonesia. There are several methods of mosquito vector control, one of them is the use of ovitrap and the addition of attractants which is a compound that may attract gravid mosquitoes to lay eggs. Some examples of attractants are hay infusion and sugar fermentation solution. This research aimed to compare effectiveness of hay infusion and sugar fermentation solution as Aedes aegypti attractants. This research type was true experimental laboratory with complete randomized design which is divided into 3 groups of ovitrap containing aquades as control, 20% hay infusion and 20% sugar fermentation solution. Ovitraps with those attractants were put into a mosquito coop containing 25 gravid female mosquitoes. Mosquito’s eggs counting was done after 2 days with 9 times repetition. The data were then analyzed using Kruskal-Wallis and Mann-Whitney test. It was found that the difference of mosquito’s eggs number in the ovitrap containing the fermentation solution of sugar and hay infusion had a significance value of 0.000 (p> 0,05). It means that hay infusion is more effective compared with sugar fermentation. Keywords : DHF, ovitrap, attractant, hay infusion, sugar fermentation solution
Highlights
Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever (DHF) is still one of the major public health problems in the world and Indonesia
After 24 hours of treatment, there were several eggs attached to the ovitrap, but the calculation was done on the second day after treatment to avoid undisturbed oviposition process
The highest number of eggs was found in the ovitrap containing the hay infusion as much as 1419 eggs or equal to 63.9%, while the sugar fermentation solution as much as 31 eggs or equivalent 1.4% and control has 772 eggs or equal to 34.7% of the total number of eggs
Summary
Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever (DHF) is still one of the major public health problems in the world and Indonesia. This research type was a true experimental laboratory with a complete randomized design which is divided into three groups of ovitrap containing aquades as control, 20% hay infusion and 20% sugar fermentation solution Ovitraps with those attractants were put into a mosquito coop containing 25 gravid female mosquitoes. Hay infusion proved more influential on female mosquito oviposition and had better Egg Density Index (EDI) compared to other attractants (Nurdian and Lelono, 2010). Another attractant that has been studied is a solution of sugar fermentation. The author is interested to compare the effectiveness of hay infusion and sugar fermentation solution as ovitrap’s attractants to Aedes aegypti
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