ABSTRACT
Introduction ...................................................................................................................................161
Review of Literature .....................................................................................................................162
Olfactometer Test Systems ...........................................................................................................163
Research Objectives ......................................................................................................................165
Laboratory Olfactometer ...............................................................................................................165
Summary of Olfactometer Development......................................................................................167
Summary of Olfactometer Market Sample Tests .........................................................................168
Market Sample Results .................................................................................................................168
Summary of Olfactometer Research.............................................................................................169
References .....................................................................................................................................191
The development of attractants and repellents for future management of blood-feeding flies, mosquitoes,
and other arthropods requires that behavioral regulating compounds (semiochemicals) first be identified.
Preferably, these materials should be noninsecticidal, so that they may reduce selective resistance
problems. When possible, semiochemical compounds should also be obtained from natural self-
protective systems that are developed through plant and animal evolution, as these materials will be
long term products of natural selection. These materials can be developed as attractants for baits and
traps, as repellents for individual hosts, and as area treatments for exclusion of pests. They would most
desirably be used to develop a push-pull system with attractant traps on the perimeter and repellents
placed on or near the hosts to first capture and then exclude blood feeders.
