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. 2013 Dec 19;8(12):e84168. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0084168

Table 2. Results of experimental hut trial of three toxic sugar baits against An. arabiensis and Cx. quinquefasciatus. Numbers of female mosquitoes tested, the percentage dying, the percentage dyed with a red dye, and the percentage of dyed mosquitoes that died (and 95% confidence intervals) are presented.

Control Chlorfenapyr (0.5%) Boric acid (2%) Tolfenpyrad (1%)
Anopheles arabiensis females
Total caught 97 100 104 109
Mortality (%) 18 (11-26)a 48 (38-58)b 41 (32-51)b 45 (36-54)b
Mosquitoes with visible dye (%) 25 (17-34)a 17 (11-26)a 15 (10-24)a 17 (11-26)a
Mortality of visibly dyed mosquitoes (%) 13 (4-32)a 100b 94 (67-99)c 84 (61-95)c
Dead mosquitoes that were visibly dyed (%) 18 (6-43)a 35 (23-50)a 35 (22-50)a 33 (21-47)a
Anopheles arabiensis males
Total caught 172 165 210 213
Mortality (%) 27 (21-34)a 58 (50-64)b 48 (41-54)c 48 (42-55)c
Mosquitoes with visible dye (%) 19 (13-25)a 11 (7-17)ab 11 (8-16)b 10 (7-15)b
Mortality of visibly dyed mosquitoes (%) 16 (7-33)a 89 (65-97)b 95 (73-99)b 95 (73-99)b
Dead mosquitoes that were visibly dyed (%) 11 (5-25)a 17 (11-26)a 24 (17-33)a 19 (13-28)a
Culex quinquefasciatus females
Total caught 43 42 35 28
Mortality (%) 7 (2-20)a 43 (29-58)b 40 (25-57)b 36 (20-55)b
Mosquitoes with visible dye (%) 12 (5-25)a 21 (12-36)a 29 (16-45)a 7 (2-25)a
Mortality of visibly dyed mosquitoes (%) 0a 78 (42-94)b 80 (46-95)b 100c
Dead mosquitoes that were visibly dyed (%) 0a 39 (20-62)a 57 (32-79)a 20 (5-54)a

If the superscript in a row is the same, there were no significant differences between the treatments (p>0.05)