Advancing the design of the kissing bug kill trap for surveillance of triatomines
Yuexun Tian, Nadia A. Fernández‐Santos, Jose Guillermo Juarez, Henry Esquivel, Andrea M Moller-Vasquez, María Granados-Presa, Adriana Echeverria, Pamela Marie Pennington, Alejandra Zamora-Jerez, Juan P. Fimbres-Macias, Walter D. Roachell, Paul A. Lenhart, Theresa Casey, Molly Keck, Carolyn L. Hodo, , Gabriel L. Hamer
The paper tests improvements to a solar-powered trap for capturing kissing bugs, finding that a six-funnel design with specific lighting and placement is most effective.
PLoS neglected tropical diseases · Feb 27, 2026Peer-reviewedEcology