Host feeding patterns and preference of Anopheles minimus (Diptera: Culicidae) in a malaria endemic area of western Thailand: baseline site description

Table 5 Three-way ANOVA of total number of landing An. minimus by hour, season (dry, hot, and wet), collection method (indoor and outdoor human bait, and outdoor cattle bait) and time interval (early evening, late evening, pre-dawn, and dawn) as discriminating factors

Source	df	Sum of squares	Mean squares	F	P
Year	1	3876.042	3876.042	18.99	<0.0001
Season	2	14627.620	7313.810	35.83	<0.0001
Time period	3	6030.125	2010.042	9.85	<0.0001
Types of collection	2	5916.954	2958.477	14.49	<0.0001
Season x time period	6	3662.861	610.477	2.99	0.0083
Season x collection methods	4	12326.991	3081.747	15.10	<0.0001
Time period x collection methods	6	1529.639	254.940	1.25	0.2835
Season x Time period x collection methods	12	3463.417	288.619	1.41	0.1629

Year = 1 and 2; season = dry, hot, wet; time period = early evening, late evening, pre-dawn, dawn; types of collection = indoor HLC, outdoor HLC, cow-baited net trap.

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