The attractiveness of oviposition site for malaria vector mosquitoes is dependent upon a
number of physical and chemical factors. Many aspects of mosquito behavior, including host
location and oviposition, are mediated by volatile semiochemicals. It is anticipated that
selection of oviposition site by semio‐chemicals in the form of attractants or stimulants can
be used in oviposition traps to monitor or possibly in combination with insecticides to control
gravid mosquito populations for mass trapping. So far, volatile compounds identified as …

1. Background Malaria is one of the most significant and debilitating insecttransmitted
human diseases and has infected humans for over thousand years and may have been a
human pathogen for the entire history of mankind [1]. Today, malaria causes about 225
million cases of fever and approximately 600,000 deaths annually more specifically in
children under age of 5 years [2]. This represents at least one death (child) every 39
seconds and 85–90% of the deaths occur in sub-Saharan Africa [2]. Mosquitoes spend the …