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Kaufmann C, Collins LF, Brown MR. Influence of Age and Nutritional Status on Flight Performance of the Asian Tiger Mosquito Aedes albopictus (Diptera: Culicidae). Insects. 2013;4(3)doi: 10.3390/insects4030404.
Kaufmann, C., Collins, L. F., & Brown, M. R. (2013). Influence of Age and Nutritional Status on Flight Performance of the Asian Tiger Mosquito Aedes albopictus (Diptera: Culicidae). Insects, 4(3), . https://doi.org/10.3390/insects4030404
Kaufmann, Christian, et al. "Influence of Age and Nutritional Status on Flight Performance of the Asian Tiger Mosquito Aedes albopictus (Diptera: Culicidae)." Insects vol. 4,3 (2013). doi: https://doi.org/10.3390/insects4030404
Kaufmann C, Collins LF, Brown MR. Influence of Age and Nutritional Status on Flight Performance of the Asian Tiger Mosquito Aedes albopictus (Diptera: Culicidae). Insects. 2013 Sep 01;4(3). doi: 10.3390/insects4030404. PMID: 24404384; PMCID: PMC3882092.
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Insects. 2013 Sep 01;4(3). doi: 10.3390/insects4030404.

Influence of Age and Nutritional Status on Flight Performance of the Asian Tiger Mosquito Aedes albopictus (Diptera: Culicidae).

Insects

Christian Kaufmann, Lauren F Collins, Mark R Brown

Affiliations

  1. Department of Entomology, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, USA; [email protected] (L.F.C.); [email protected] (M.R.B.) ; Swiss National Centre for Vector Entomology, Institute of Parasitology, University of Zürich, CH-8057 Zürich, Switzerland.
  2. Department of Entomology, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, USA; [email protected] (L.F.C.); [email protected] (M.R.B.).

PMID: 24404384 PMCID: PMC3882092 DOI: 10.3390/insects4030404

Abstract

The Asian tiger mosquito, Aedes albopictus, is a competent vector for arboviruses and recently was implicated as the vector of the first autochthonous cases of dengue and chikungunya in southern Europe. The objective of this study was to analyze the flight performance of female Ae. albopictus of different ages that were starved, sugar-fed, or sugar-fed and blood-fed, using flight mills. After three days of starvation post emergence, females flew an average distance of 0.7 ± 0.5 km in 1.9 ± 1.5 h during a 16 h trial period, whereas sugar- or sugar- and blood-fed females of this age covered a significantly higher distance of around 3 km with a mean total flight time of around 6 h. The age of females (up to four weeks) had no effect on performance. The average of maximal continuous flight segments of sugar-fed (2.14 ± 0.69 h) and blood-fed (3.17 ± 0.82 h) females was distinctly higher than of starved females (0.38 ± 0.15 h) of which most flyers (83%) performed maximal flight segments that lasted no longer than 0.5 h. Overall, the results for the laboratory monitored flight performance of Ae. albopictus confirm their ability to disperse a few kilometres between breeding site and host.

Keywords: Aedes albopictus; distance; flight potential; mosquito; vector

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