Efficacy of Greenlid Biotraps towards arbovirus-infected mosquitoes**

Greenlid环境科学公司和布洛克大学媒介传播疾病中心合作开发了最好的生物捕集器。格林里德的生物捕蚊器是世界上第一个完全可生物降解的，只需加水的捕蚊器。生物诱捕器的设计是为了模拟雌性容器繁殖蚊子的繁殖地，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，但真正衡量成功的是生物诱捕器是否能够诱捕并杀死感染了蚊媒疾病（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表现出与未受感染的蚊子相同的产卵行为。这一研究伙伴关系旨在测试虫媒病毒感染的蚊子是否像未感染的蚊子一样被生物诱捕器吸引。通过在Brock的3级防护设施进行的一系列实验，我们将优化生物捕蚊器的颜色和气味，这样Greenlid就可以向潜在客户保证，他们的生物捕蚊器已经被科学证明对感染蚊子和未感染蚊子都有效！

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!