PROMON 501 Cameras, another success story, Mosquitoes 3D flight track recording
The University of Wageningen, in the Netherlands (AOS Distributor MC-S) uses our PROMON 501 NIR Camera for a not everyday project – the analysis of flight behavior of female malaria mosquitoes.
By using different odour blends and visual cues that attract anthropophilic mosquitoes, odour-baited traps have been developed to monitor and control human pathogen-transmitting vectors. Although long-range attraction of such traps has already been studied thoroughly, close-range response of mosquitoes to these traps has been largely ignored. Here, they studied the flight behavior of female malaria mosquitoes in the immediate vicinity of a commercially available odour-baited trap, positioned in a hanging and standing orientation. By analyzing more than 2500 three-dimensional flight tracks, they elucidated how mosquitoes reacted to the trap, and how this led to capture.
Mosquito tracks around the trap were recorded using two synchronized high-speed cameras (PROMON 501 camera head with NIR sensors and 45 mm lenses), filming at 90 frames per second with a resolution of 1240 × 1080 pixels.
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