Mosquito sampling

A mosquito sampling was done using human landing collection (HLC) in two houses in every hamlet in Lubuk Pauh Village for 11 h from 18.00 pm to 05.00 am Western Indonesian Time (WIT). Catching mosquitoes were done both indoors and outdoors by a team of four trained volunteers per house, with two volunteers sitting in the house, and two volunteers sitting outside the house. To determine mosquito biting cycles, HLC was conducted hourly for 40 min for the two groups (indoors and outdoors), each with two persons, for two consecutive nights. Mosquitoes caught were put in paper cups covered with net and then sorted and identified morphologically using the identification keys with a dissecting microscope.