Utilization of Human Blood and Sugar as Nutrients by Female Aedes aegypti (Diptera: Culicidae)

AT Naksathit, JD Edman, TW Scott - Journal of medical …, 1999 - academic.oup.com
We examined the utilization of sugar and human blood as nutrient sources for small and
large female Aedes aegypti (L.) when they were fed blood 2 or 5 d after emergence …

Amounts of Glycogen, Lipid, and Sugar in Adult Female Aedes aegypti (Diptera: Culicidae) Fed Sucrose

AT Naksathit, JD Edman, TW Scott - Journal of Medical …, 1999 - academic.oup.com
We examined the amount of glycogen, lipid, and sugar in small and large female Ae. aegypti
(L.) that were fed different concentrations of sucrose. Replicate groups of laboratory-reared …

Partitioning of Glycogen, Lipid, and Sugar in Ovaries and Body Remnants of Female Aedes aegypti (Diptera: Culicidae) Fed Human Blood

AT Naksathit, JD Edman, TW Scott - Journal of medical …, 1999 - academic.oup.com
We examined the accumulation of glycogen, lipid, and sugar obtained from a human blood
meal for egg development and body energy reserves by small and large female Aedes …

Why Do Female Aedes aegypti (Diptera: Culicidae) Feed Preferentially and Frequently on Human Blood?

LC Harrington, JD Edman… - Journal of medical …, 2001 - academic.oup.com
Adult female Aedes aegypti (L.), the vector of dengue and yellow fever viruses, have an
affinity for feeding on human blood and a tendency to forego feeding on sugar. This …

Reproductive Fitness and Survivorship of Aedes aegypti (Diptera: Culicidae) Maintained on Blood, with Field Observations from Thailand

JF Day, JD Edman, TW Scott - Journal of Medical Entomology, 1994 - academic.oup.com
Daily survivorship and fecundity of Aedes aegypti mosquitoes were monitored for cohorts
provided with five nutritional treatments: water, 2% sucrose, blood from a live chicken plus …

Superior reproductive success on human blood without sugar is not limited to highly anthropophilic mosquito species

MAH Braks, SA Juliano… - Medical and veterinary …, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
Anthropophilic mosquitoes such as Aedes aegypti L.(Diptera: Culicidae) have been shown
to have superior reproductive success on human blood when sugar is not available. Life …

Reproductive and Metabolic Differences Between Aedes aegypti and Ae. albopictus (Diptera: Culicidae)

MJ Klowden, GM Chambers - Journal of medical entomology, 1992 - academic.oup.com
Aedes albopictus (Skuse) females were more likely to develop eggs after they ingested
small blood meals than were Aedes aegypti (L.) when both species were maintained under …

Female Aedes aegypti (Diptera: Culicidae) in Thailand Rarely Feed on Sugar

JD Edman, D Strickman, P Kittayapong… - Journal of medical …, 1992 - academic.oup.com
Female Aedes aegypti (L.) of two different body sizes and provided with different diets (20%
sucrose, water only, or 20% sucrose+ human blood) were marked and released together in …

The effects of nutrition on survival and fecundity in Florida mosquitoes: Part 2. Utilization of a blood meal for survival

JK Nayar, DM Sauerman Jr - Journal of Medical Entomology, 1975 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Unfed 2-to 5-day-old females of different species of Florida mosquitoes were fed ad
lib. a meal of chicken blood to repletion and analyzed for weights and calorie intake …

Frequency of Blood-feeding in Relation to Sugar Availability in Aedes aegypti and Anopheles quadrimaculatus (Diptera: Culicidae)

WA Foster, FA Eischen - Annals of the Entomological Society of …, 1987 - academic.oup.com
In adult females of the mosquitoes Aedes aegypti (L.) and Anopheles quadrimaculatus Say,
mean frequency of blood-feeding was measured under two ad lib. regimes: water only and …