Efficacy of Blood Sources and Artificial Blood Feeding Methods in Rearing of Aedes aegypti (Diptera: Culicidae) for Sterile Insect Technique and Incompatible Insect Technique Approaches in Sri Lanka

Table 1

Mean number of female mosquitoes that fed from different feeding methods, blood feeding rate along with the results of General Linear Modelling (number of replicates [] = 5).

Feeding technique	Number of females	Number of blood fed	Blood feeding rate (%)
Metal plate	300	296 ± 2.33​; (293.67–298.33)	98.67 ± 0.77​; (97.90–99.44)
Hemotek membrane feeding method	300	271 ± 2.33​; (268.67–273.33)	90.33 ± 0.77​; (97.90–99.44)
Glass plate	300	251 ± 5.29​; (245.71–256.29)	83.67 ± 1.76​; (81.91–85.43)

Note. Values are mean ± SE, range in parenthesis. Different superscript letters in a column show significant differences () as suggested by General Linear Modelling followed by Tukey’s HSD (Honest Significant Difference) at 95% level of significance.