2014
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0108894
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Abstract: Adult female mosquitoes need blood to develop their eggs and both sexes use nectar and honeydew as carbohydrate resources for flight, survival and to enhance reproduction. However, there are also a few reports in the literature of mosquitoes feeding on haemolymph of soft-bodied insects such as caterpillars. The frequency and significance of this entomophagous behavior is not well understood, but is thought to be a vestige of ancestral feeding behavior or an opportunistic behavior that has evolved over time. In… Show more

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“…gambiae complex are renowned for their high affinity to humans, they will nevertheless feed on other mammals when humans are not available (Lefevre et al, 2009). Mysteriously, the Indo-Pakistan malaria mosquito Anopheles stephensi, and other mosquitoes, have been observed feeding on the hemolymph of other insect larvae such as caterpillars (Harris et al, 1969;George et al, 2014).…”
Section: Host Preferences In Specialists and Generalistsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…gambiae complex are renowned for their high affinity to humans, they will nevertheless feed on other mammals when humans are not available (Lefevre et al, 2009). Mysteriously, the Indo-Pakistan malaria mosquito Anopheles stephensi, and other mosquitoes, have been observed feeding on the hemolymph of other insect larvae such as caterpillars (Harris et al, 1969;George et al, 2014).…”
Section: Host Preferences In Specialists and Generalistsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Females need blood mostly to mature their eggs [ 43 ], although some nourishment is obtained from blood itself in most species [ 44 ]. Blood meals can come from a wide variety of hosts, perhaps even other insects, so mosquitoes are eminently plastic host feeders [ 45 , 46 ]. The few instances of stenophagy, as is the case of Anopheles gambiae ( s.s. ) on humans, is also particularly relevant, because this specificity is part of its great efficiency as a malaria vector [ 45 ].…”
Section: Do Invasive Alien Plants Have a Positive Influence On The Ramentioning
confidence: 99%
“…A recent study showed that very short exposure times (1 minute) of Anopheles stephensi adults to cloths impregnated with B. bassiana conidia were sufficient to cause high levels of infection [ 20 ]. The results seen by Silva et al [ 17 ] showed no significant reduction in survival rates of mosquitoes exposed to traps impregnated with M. anisopliae or B .…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…aegypti . However, the experiments carried out by George et al [ 20 ] were performed in olfactometers to demonstrate the attraction of the insects to the fungus-impregnated cloths and that subsequently a one minute contact with these cloths resulted in a 95% infection rate. In our experiments, the mosquitoes may not have landed on the cloths during this 12 h period.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%