The Longevity and Productivity of Adult Male and Female Aedes Aegypti When Reared Separately and Together on Three Different Diets1

Abstract

Adult females lived longer than males whether the males of the mixed group laid 2.3 times as many eggs as sexes were reared separately or together, and whether were laid by the isolated group of virgin females. On fed on 10% sucrose, on citrated, hemolyzed beef blood the sucrose diet longevity of males and of females, containing 10% sucrose, or on a synthetic diet of amino whether separated or together, was as great as or greater acids, inorganic salts, and 10% sucrose. In all cases, than on either of the other two diets. On the blood males lived significantly longer alone than when caged diet eggs deposited in 40 days averaged 300 per fertilized with females, but females lived longer when with males female and 127 per virgin female, while on the synthetic than when alone, except on the blood diet where the diet the averages were 47 and 7.4, respectively. longevities were relatively equivalent. On blood, fe-