| 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 |