Jinrapa PothikasikornRapee BoonplueangChalermchai SuebsaengRungpetch KhaengraengTheeraphap ChareonviriyaphapMahidol UniversityPibulsongkram Rajabhat UniversityKasetsart University2018-09-242018-09-242010-06-01Journal of Vector Ecology. Vol.35, No.1 (2010), 149-15519487134108117102-s2.0-77952025316https://repository.li.mahidol.ac.th/handle/20.500.14594/28501The colonization of Aedes aegypti and Anopheles dirus was performed using out-of-date human blood from a blood bank as a nutritional supply dispensed from a common artificial feeder. Preserved human blood was collected and used for feeding on days 5, 15, and 25 after date of expiration and dispensed from a common artificial feeder to rear the mosquitoes. Ae. aegypti had a feeding rate of 78.7, 62, and 18% at the respective intervals while An. dirus had a rate of 80, 56.8, and 7.3% on the same respective days. Direct feeding on live hamsters resulted in a rate of 96 and 90% for Ae. aegypti and An. dirus, respectively. Although egg production rates decreased from the day 5 feeding to the day 25 feeding, all of the developmental stages resulting from An. dirus fed at day 5 and 15 showed insignificant differences when compared with direct feeding on the blood of a hamster.Mahidol UniversityAgricultural and Biological SciencesEnvironmental ScienceMedicineArticleSCOPUS10.1111/j.1948-7134.2010.00071.x