Table 1.

A summary of the mosquito age data showing the different mosquito species, country of origin, sex, and preservation methods. The raw NIRS data is available in the supplementary materials to this paper. The data for experiment B are from¹⁴; the data for experiments C, D, F, G, H, I is from¹²; the data for experiments A and E are not yet published although the experimental protocol is the same as presented in¹²; the data for J are from¹⁶; and the data for K and L are from³³.

Study	Species	Country of origin	Sex	Preservation method	Number of mosquitoes in each age group					Total
					≤ 5 days	5 < age ≤ 10	10 < age ≤ 15	15 < age ≤ 20	20 + days
A	A. arabiensis	Tanzania	female	fresh	196	302	100	101	172	871
B	A. arabiensis	Tanzania	female	Silica gel	103	168	103	51	0	425
C	A. arabiensis	Tanzania	female	fresh	99	50	95	69	0	313
D	A. arabiensis	Tanzania	male	fresh	100	50	72	67	0	289
E	A. gambiae s.s.	Tanzania	female	fresh	208	305	0	102	93	708
F	A. gambiae s.s.	Tanzania	female	fresh	100	50	93	90	0	333
G	A. gambiae s.s.	Tanzania	female	fresh	100	50	86	94	0	330
H	A. gambiae s.s.	Tanzania	male	fresh	100	50	67	77	0	294
I	A. gambiae s.s.	Tanzania	male	fresh	100	50	76	13	0	239
J	A. gambiae s.l.	Tanzania	female	RNAlater	91	162	42	0	0	295
K	Ae. aegypti	Australia	male	RNAlater	46	43	46	50	42	227
L	Ae. aegypti	Australia	female	RNAlater	41	45	46	43	50	225
Total	all				1284	1325	826	757	357	4549