Table 5.

The proportion of parous mosquitoes within the Anopheles farauti population in Lata and Pala villages, Temotu Province, Solomon Islands, calculated from hourly mosquito collections during 2008 and 2010.

Hour	Pre-intervention		Post-intervention
	Lata Oct 2008	Pala Oct 2008	Pala Apr 2010	Pala Dec 2010
6-7 pm	0.24	0.28	0.33	0.39
7-8 pm	0.39	0.40	0.36	0.45
8-9 pm	0.34	0.31	0.34	0.22
9-10 pm	0.36	0.48	0.40	0.46
10-11 pm	0.40	0.51	0.46	0.40
11-12 pm	0.52	0.48	0.56	0.50
12-1 am	0.39	0.43	0.50	0.50
1-2 am	0.66	0.45	0.53	0.50
2-3 am	0.47	0.47	0.52	0.44
3-4 am	0.60	0.26	0.49	0.20
4-5 am	0.45	0.51	0.58	0.44
5-6 am	0.62	0.48	0.64	NA
Overall parity	0.41	0.42	0.43	0.43
Daily survival (p)	0.700	0.707	0.713	0.713
Total mosquitoes (n)	842	1,218	645	343

Heterogeneity was noted in the proportion parous for An. farauti collected 6-7 pm as compared to the other hours of the night in Lata and Pala during Oct 2008 (χ² = 5.67, P > 0.05).