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Effects of supplementary carbohydrate feeding on fecundity and life-length in Leptoconops becquaerti (Kieff.)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 July 2009

J. R. Linley
J. R. Linley
Affiliation:
Sandfly Research Unit, Ministry of Health, Montego Bay, Jamaica, W.I.
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Laboratory experiments carried out in Jamaica in 1963 showed that the number of eggs matured by blood-fed females of Leptoconops becquaerti (Kieff.) was only slightly increased when they were allowed access to a source of dilute honey during the subsequent period of egg maturation. A majority of the females imbibed some honey, and over half took large amounts; survival was better in groups given honey than in those not. The amount of fluid in the crop of field-collected females indicated that more than half had fed on nectar. In the laboratory, field-collected females took on average more than their own weight of blood.

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Research Paper
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Bulletin of Entomological Research , Volume 57 , Issue 1 , November 1966 , pp. 19 - 22
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1966

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