Effects of larval nutrition on the host-seeking behavior of adult Aedes aegypti mosquitoes
Klowden, M.J.; Blackmer, J.L.; Chambers, G.M.
Journal of the American Mosquito Control Association 4(1): 73-75
1988
ISSN/ISBN: 8756-971X PMID: 3193101 Document Number: 318701
Adult females of A. aegypti that were reared on a suboptimal diet as larvae were less likely to engage in host-seeking behaviour than were adults derived from larvae on an optimal diet. A postemergence carbohydrate diet of either 1 or 10% sucrose solution did not affect this response. When the progeny of field-collected A. vexans were reared in the laboratory, the adults were significantly larger than their parents. This indicated that the larvae of field populations were not as adequately nourished as their laboratory-reared progeny.