Table 3.

Egg production by blood meal source for NY Aedes albopictus

Blood source	Proportion with laid eggs (%)	Proportion with retained eggs (%)*	Mean eggs produced (±SE)†
Human	104/121 (86.0)	23/121 (19.0)	61.0 (2.9)‡
Opossum	64/86 (74.4)	10/86 (11.6)	58.7 (4.8)‡
Rat	100/122 (82.0)	16/122 (13.1)	53.5 (3.7)‡§
Horse	70/97 (72.2)	11/97 (11.3)	48.5 (3.9)‡§
Cat	57/89 (64.0)	10/89 (11.2)	40.3 (4.0)§

^*Includes mosquitoes with any number of retained eggs.

^† Groups that do not share a superscript letter are significantly different (P < 0.02).