Now improved! The BG-GAT Reflect-Tech is a new version of the original BG-GAT trap. Innovation: Double catch rates thanks to the Reflect-Tech technology.

Biogents’ passive BG-GAT (Gravid Aedes Trap) attracts female Aedes (Stegomyia) mosquitoes with water and ovipositioning cues. These mosquito species are vectors of diseases such as dengue fever, Zika, chikungunya, or yellow fever.

Female mosquitoes are attracted by water and ovipositioning cues and enter the transparent chamber through the funnel. Once in the chamber mosquitoes try to escape through the translucent part where they are exposed to a sticky surface, oil or insecticides. The transparent chamber hinders the mosquitoes‘ ability to escape and the black mesh net provides a barrier between mosquitoes and the infused water as well as retains dead mosquitoes without damaging them.

The BG-GAT is ideal for surveillance programs of Asian tiger and dengue mosquitoes or for mass trapping in combination with suction traps >

The BG-GAT trap was developed by Dr. A. E. Eiras from the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil, and Dr. S. A. Ritchie from the James Cook University, Cairns, Queensland, Australia. Biogents produces and distributes the trap under a license agreement with both universities.