Table 4.
Blood feeding rate of An. gambiae and An. coluzzii collected by PSC method in Alibori and Donga
| Regions | An. gambiae | An. coluzzii | p-value | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total collected | Unfed | Fed | Gravid | Half-gravid | Blood feeding rate (%) | Total collected | Unfed | Fed | Gravid | Half-gravid | Blood feeding rate (%) | ||
| Alibori | 235 | 5 | 216 | 3 | 11 | 96.6 | 460 | 20 | 358 | 35 | 47 | 88.04 | 0.0003 |
| Donga | 640 | 13 | 604 | 8 | 15 | 96.72 | 418 | 11 | 347 | 20 | 40 | 92.58 | 0.003 |
| Both regions | 875 | 18 | 820 | 11 | 26 | 96.68 | 878 | 31 | 705 | 55 | 87 | 90.20 | < 0.0001 |
Italic values indicate significance of p value (p<0.05)
p-value: p-value of comparison of the feeding rate of An. gambiae to that of An. coluzzii by region