Fig. 3
Adult starvation and recovery. Mortality in adult Aedes aegypti following consumption of 5% erythritol + 5% sucrose. Treatments were designated based on no prior starvation (T1, T2; unshaded mosquito), a slow starvation with 3% sucrose for 72 h (T3, T5; shaded mosquito), or complete starvation for 24 h (T4, T6; shaded and blackened mosquito). Half of the treatments allowed continuous access to the erythritol (T1, T5, T6), with the other half being swapped for 10% sucrose after 24 h to measure recovery (T2, T3, T4). Bar graphs are represented with I-bars as standard error of the mean. Groups are annotated (a–d) for repeated-measures ANOVA (F2,197 = 88.71, P < 0.0001), with shared letters being insignificantly different