Figure 2.

Mean number of Anopheles gambiae collected by pyrethrum spray catch (PSC) per village during the August 1999 (circles) and 2000 (squares) versus area of late rice in a 900-meter buffer area around the centroid of the village. The two villages marked with an asterisk were considered outliers and excluded from the regression analysis. Also excluded from the graph and analyses were the village of Tissana in August 1999 because the sample rice fields around it were flooded, and seven villages from August 2000, which were obstructed by clouds in the satellite images (see text).