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Rate of Digestion of Vertebrate Blood in Aedes Aegypti (L.)
Effect of Age, Mating, and Parity
John D. Edman
John D. Edman
Entomological Research Center, Florida Division of Health, Vero Beach, Florida
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At 4-hr intervals from 24 to 80 hrs after mosquitoes fed on blood, their stomachs were examined by a sensitive precipitin-test system, for undigested serum protein. Mated nulliparous females 2 to 26 days old, 6-day-old virgin females, and 10-day-old and 18-day-old parous females were compared. Females 2 and 4 days old digested their blood meal faster than did females 6 to 26 days old. Unmated females and parous females digested their blood meal slower than mated females and nulliparous females of the same age.
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