Efficacy of Greenlid Biotraps towards arbovirus-infected mosquitoes**

Greenlid Envirosciences和Brock大学的媒介传播疾病中心已经合作开发了最好的Biotrap。Greenlid的生物诱捕器是世界上第一个完全可生物降解的，只需加水的蚊子诱捕器。生物诱捕器的设计是为了模仿母蚊子的繁殖地，然后杀死它们和它们的后代。减少蚊子数量是病媒控制的一个组成部分，但成功的真正衡量标准是生物诱捕器是否能够诱捕和杀死感染蚊媒疾病（如寨卡病毒、西尼罗河病毒）的蚊子以及未感染的蚊子。 我们根本不知道受感染的蚊子是否会表现出与未受感染的蚊子相同的产卵行为。这项研究合作旨在测试感染虫媒病毒的蚊子是否会像未感染的蚊子一样被生物诱捕器吸引。通过在Brock的3级隔离设施中进行的一系列实验-在那里我们能够与受感染的活蚊子一起工作-我们将优化Biotraces的颜色和气味，以便Greenlid可以向潜在客户保证，他们的Biotraces已被科学证明对受感染的蚊子以及未受感染的蚊子有效！

Greenlid Envirosciences and Brock University's Centre for Vector-Borne Diseases have teamed up to develop the best Biotrap possible. Greenlid's Biotrap is the world's first fully biodegradable, just-add-water mosquito trap. The Biotrap is designed to mimic the breeding grounds of female container-breeding mosquitoes and then kill them and their offspring. Reducing mosquito populations is one component of vector control, but the true measure of success would be if the Biotraps can trap and kill mosquitoes infected with mosquito-borne disease (e.g. Zika, West Nile virus) as well as uninfected mosquitoes. We simply do not know whether infected mosquitoes display the same egg laying behaviours as do uninfected mosquitoes. This research partnership aims to test whether arbovirus-infected mosquitoes are attracted to the Biotraps to the same extent that uninfected mosquitoes are. Through a series of experiments in Brock's Containment Level 3 facility - where we are able to work with live, infected mosquitoes - we will optimize both the colour and odour of the Biotraps so that Greenlid can assure potential customers that their Biotraps have been scientifically proven to be effective against infected mosquitoes as well as uninfected mosquitoes!