Table 2.
Locations of triatomine collections by citizen scientists
| Location | Triatoma species | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| T. gerstaeckeri | T. indictiva | T. lecticularia | T. neotomae | T. protracta | T. rubida | T. sanguisuga | Unknown (adult) | Unknown (nymph) | Total | Percent of total* | ||
| Indoors | Primary residences† | 159 | 20 | 29 | – | 20 | 97 | 138 | 14 | 45 | 522 | 22.4 |
| Non-residences‡ | 9 | – | 2 | – | – | – | 8 | – | – | 19 | 0.8 | |
| Hunting cabins | 8 | – | 1 | – | – | – | 56 | – | 1 | 66 | 2.8 | |
| Indoors total | 176 | 20 | 32 | – | 20 | 97 | 202 | 14 | 46 | 607 | 26.0 | |
| Outdoors | Dog kennel§ | 567 | 24 | 15 | – | – | – | 38 | 13 | 21 | 678 | 29.1 |
| Peridomestic environment¶ | 605 | 58 | 28 | – | 2 | 26 | 132 | 13 | 17 | 881 | 37.8 | |
| Barns and chicken coops | 12 | 6 | 23 | – | – | – | 10 | 1 | 2 | 54 | 2.3 | |
| Outdoor-other‖ | 23 | 2 | 1 | – | – | – | 14 | 1 | 2 | 43 | 1.8 | |
| Outdoors, exact location not specified | 46 | – | 3 | – | 1 | – | 18 | – | 3 | 71 | 3.0 | |
| Outdoors total | 1,253 | 90 | 70 | – | 3 | 26 | 212 | 28 | 45 | 1,727 | 74.0 | |
| Not specified | 356 | 10 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 81 | 67 | 5 | 21 | 549 | ||
| Total | 1,785 | 120 | 109 | 1 | 24 | 204 | 481 | 47 | 112 | 2,883 | – | |
When known, collection sites of triatomines were classified as “indoors” or “outdoors,” with subcategories. This table includes all triatomines (alive and dead) collected by citizen scientists.
Percent is calculated from the subtotal (2,334) of triatomines for which exact location was specified by collector.
Human residences with continuous, regular occupancy.
Office and clinic buildings.
These were primarily multi-dog, outdoor, open air kennels.
Including porches, patios, garages, and outer surfaces of houses.
Triatomines collected from a deer hunting stand (one nymph), in a car (one adult, unknown species), near a woodrat nest (two T. gerstaeckeri and one nymph), parking lots (one T. gerstaeckeri and one T. sanguisuga), swimming pools or water buckets (all dead; 10 T. gerstaeckeri, two T. indictiva, one T. sanguisuga), camping tents (five T. gerstaeckeri), near blacklights situated 10–20 m high on a tower (Lee County, TX; five T. gerstaeckeri, one T. lecticularia, and 11 T. sanguisuga), and by an individual while trapping raccoons during the night (one T. sanguisuga).