| blood feeding and autogeny in the peridomestic mosquito aedes bahamensis (diptera: culicidae). | under laboratory conditions, most colony and field-collected aedes bahamensis berlin females developed eggs autogenously when they had access to sugar. however, significantly fewer starved females were autogenous, and they produced smaller egg clutches. autogenous fecundity covaried with wing length, and smaller females generally failed to express autogeny. mating had no effect on the maturation of the initial egg clutch. most starved, nulliparous females blood fed from a restrained host. at a s ... | 1993 | 8459415 |
| preliminary studies of aedes bahamensis as a host and potential vector of st. louis encephalitis virus. | aedes bahamensis, a recent introduction to the state of florida, was studied to determine its capability to serve as a host or vector of st. louis encephalitis (sle) virus. females were readily infected by inoculation, and had whole body virus titers as high as 10(9.4) mosquito infectious doses 50. sixty percent of females that had been infected by inoculation were capable of orally transmitting virus. nearly half of the females feeding on viremic chickens became infected, but not all of these i ... | 1991 | 2045810 |