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Table 2 Ingredient proportions (%) in each diet mixture

From: Cost-effective larval diet mixtures for mass rearing of Anopheles arabiensis Patton (Diptera: Culicidae)

Ingredient/ Mixture

Mix 0

Mix 1

Mix 2

Mix 3

Mix 4

Mix 5

Mix 6

Mix 7

Mix 8

Tuna meal (TM) (%)

50

70

70

70

70

50

100

25

50

Bovine liver powder (BLP) (%)

50

30

15

15

0

20

0

25

20

Brewer’s yeast (BY) (%)

0

0

15

0

15

15

0

25

20

Chickpea (CP) (%)

0

0

0

15

15

15

0

25

10

Vitamin mix (VM) (4.6 g/l)

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

Total (100%)

100

100

100

100

100

100

100

100

100