Skip to main content

Table 2 Summary of statistically significant effects of the time-of-day that mosquitoes blood feed on life history traits

From: Time-of-day of blood-feeding: effects on mosquito life history and malaria transmission

 

Experiment 1: “Blood quality & host time”

Experiment 2: “Blood quality”

Experiment 3: “Infection”

Infection prevalence & intensity

na

na

No effect of feed time

Proportion laid

Morning-fed are ~ 26% more likely to lay than evening-fed

No effect of feed time

Morning-fed are possibly ~ 27% more likely to lay than evening fed (P = 0.056)

Time to lay

Morning-fed are ~ 1.5 times more likely to lay each day than evening-fed

No effect of feed time

No effect of feed time

Clutch size

Higher if fed on control (non-anaemic) blood in the morning (30% more eggs)

No effect of feed time

No effect of feed time

Hatch rate

No effect of feed time

na

na

Blood meal volume & density

No effect of feed time

na

na

Survival

No effect of feed time

No effect of feed time

No effect of feed time

  1. Abbreviation: na, not available