The Numbers of Eggs Developed Related to the Quantities of Human Blood Ingested in Aedes Aegypti (L.) (Diptera: Culicidae)

Abstract

The basic needs of bloodsucking arthropods are being investigated as a means toward understanding their behavior in relation to the vertebrate host. The results reported in this article extend our information on the relation between the numbers of eggs that are developed by Aedes aegypti (Linnaeus) and the varying quantities of human blood ingested as affected by differences between individual mosquitoes, ages of the mosquitoes at the time of the blood meal, and weights of the mosquitoes before the blood meal.