PMID: 8459411Mar 1, 1993Paper

Effects of preblood-meal sugar on sugar seeking and upwind flight by gravid and parous Aedes aegypti (Diptera: Culicidae)

Journal of Medical Entomology
R G Hancock, W A Foster

Abstract

Sugar seeking and upwind flight of gravid and parous female Aedes aegypti (L.) was measured by their attraction to honey in a dual-port airflow olfactometer at selected time intervals after a blood meal. Comparisons were made between pre-blood-meal sugar-fed and unfed females. Sugar-fed females had greater total energy reserves, mostly because of elevated lipid levels. Gravid mosquitoes in both groups showed a strong tendency to fly upwind. This appears to be a pre-ovipositional response. Gravid female orientation to honey was greater in unfed females than in sugar-fed females. After oviposition, parous females became more strongly attracted to honey, if their honey response was not already high.

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Jun 20, 2012·Journal of Chemical Ecology·Philip E OtienoburuWoodbridge A Foster
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Sep 1, 1999·Journal of Medical Entomology·D J Mauer, W A Rowley
Mar 11, 1999·Journal of Medical Entomology·A T NaksathitS W Scott
Apr 1, 1997·Medical and Veterinary Entomology·R G Hancock, W A Foster
Apr 29, 2008·Journal of the American Mosquito Control Association·Woodbridge A Foster
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