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Table 5 Effects of adult rearing density on egg production, female fecundity and egg hatch rate using Big cage A

From: Establishment of a medium-scale mosquito facility: tests on mass production cages for Aedes albopictus (Diptera: Culicidae)

No. of mosquitoes

DRS (cm2 / adult)

Egg production per cage (104)

Female fecundity

Egg hatch rate (%)

12,000

0.900

60.6 ± 2.1a

67.4 ± 2.3a

85.1 ± 1.7a

16,000

0.675

73.2 ± 2.6b

61.0 ± 2.1a

85.3 ± 1.5a

20,000

0.540

58.8 ± 3.1a

39.2 ± 2.1b

78.5 ± 2.4a

  1. Within each column, values followed by different superscript letters are statistically different in the same treatment cage using ANOVA analysis and Tukey post-hoc test (P < 0.05)
  2. Abbreviations: DRS density-resting surface