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 2

Mean percentage of female mosquitoes that fed with different blood types, blood feeding rates, their egg laying efficiency, egg hatching rate, and the results of General Linear Modelling (number of replicates [] = 5).

Type of blood	Number of females	Number of blood fed females	Blood feeding rate (%)	Fecundity	Egg laying efficiency/oviposition rate	Number of eggs hatched	Egg hatching rate (%)
Cattle	300	270 ± 2.89​; (267.11–272.89)	89.67 ± 0.96​; (88.71–90.63)	4196 ± 39.10​; (4156.90–4235.10)	15.54 ± 0.31​; (15.23–15.85)	3904 ± 26.30​; (3877.70–3930.30)	93.04 ± 0.25​; (92.79–93.29)
Human	300	292 ± 2.93​; (289.07–294.93)	97.33 ± 0.99​; (96.34–98.32)	4336 ± 45.25​; (4290.75–4381.25)	14.85 ± 0.39​; (14.46–15.24)	4064 ± 40.9​; (4023.10–4104.9)	93.73 ± 0.75​; (92.98–94.48)
Chicken	300	239 ± 2.73​; (236.27–241.73)	79.67 ± 0.91​; (78.76–80.58)	3034 ± 34.90​; (2999.10–3068.9)	12.69 ± 0.28​; (12.41–12.97)	2681 ± 33.70​; (2647.30–2714.7)	88.39 ± 2.65​; (85.74–91.04)

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) test, at 95% level of significance.