Table 3.

Man-biting rates of female Anopheles mosquitoes in the study sites

Period	Intervention site				Control site
	Actual values		Transformed values		Actual values		Transformed values
	Year I	Year II	Year I	Year II	Year I	Year II	Year I	Year II
October	0.21	1.99	0.84	1.58	1.38	2.96	1.37	1.86
November	0.53	0.10	1.01	0.77	2.33	1.44	1.68	1.39
December	0.03	0.00	0.73	0.71	1.50	2.01	1.41	1.58
January	0.00	0.05	0.71	0.74	1.31	1.70	1.35	1.48
February	0.00	0.00	0.71	0.71	1.34	1.49	1.36	1.41
March	0.08	0.25	0.76	0.87	1.39	1.86	1.37	1.54
April	0.71	1.57	1.10	1.44	1.88	3.30	1.54	1.95
May	0.37	0.95	0.93	1.20	1.86	2.13	1.54	1.62
June	0.25	0.28	0.87	0.88	0.81	0.78	1.14	1.13
July	0.28	0.24	0.88	0.86	0.94	0.89	1.20	1.18
August	0.04	0.84	0.73	1.16	0.86	2.73	1.17	1.79
September	1.19	2.77	1.30	1.81	4.76	4.97	2.29	2.34
Mean ± SD			0.88 ± 0.18	1.06 ± 0.38			1.45 ± 0.31	1.61 ± 0.34

Mean man-biting rates were significantly higher in the second year compared to the first year in both intervention (P = 0.012) and control (P = 0.010) sites