Culturing Culex quinquefasciatus mosquitoes with a blood substitute diet for the females

Medical and Veterinary Entomology

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 265-268

  Griffith, Jeremy S R ^a   Turner, Grahame D ^b  

^a AgrEvo Environmental Health   (United Kingdom)

^b ADAS BOXWORTH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Aedes aegypti; Anopheles arabiensis; artificial diet; blood substitute; Cules quinquefasciatus; Culicidae; fecundity; fertility; insect culture; membrane feeding; nutrition; phagostimulant

Indexed keywords

AEDES AEGYPTI; ANIMALIA; ANOPHELES ARABIENSIS; CAVIA; CULEX PIPIENS; CULEX PIPIENS QUINQUEFASCIATUS; CULICIDAE; INSECTA;

EID: 0030186090     PISSN: 0269283X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2915.1996.tb00741.x     Document Type: Article

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