Figure 5.

Hemocyte phagocytic capacity in adult female and male mosquitoes following various larval treatments. Larvae were left unmanipulated (naïve), injured, injected with heat‐killed E. coli or microspheres, or infected with E. coli, Enterobacter sp., or S. aureus. Five days after eclosion, the female and male adults were infected with E. coli, and the number of E. coli phagocytosed by each hemocyte (a)—or only the phagocytic hemocytes (b)—was calculated 1 hr later. Circles mark the data points, horizontal line marks the mean, whiskers denote the standard error of the mean, and asterisks denote significant differences (Tukey's p < 0.05) between the larval naïve group of a given sex (R) and a larval treatment