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Table 5 The proportion of parous mosquitoes within the Anopheles farauti population in Lata and Pala villages, Temotu Province, Solomon Islands, calculated from hourly mosquito collections during 2008 and 2010.

From: Bionomics of the malaria vector Anopheles farauti in Temotu Province, Solomon Islands: issues for malaria elimination

Hour	Pre-intervention		Post-intervention
Hour	Lata Oct 2008	Pala Oct 2008	Pala Apr 2010	Pala Dec 2010
6-7 pm	0.24	0.28	0.33	0.39
7-8 pm	0.39	0.40	0.36	0.45
8-9 pm	0.34	0.31	0.34	0.22
9-10 pm	0.36	0.48	0.40	0.46
10-11 pm	0.40	0.51	0.46	0.40
11-12 pm	0.52	0.48	0.56	0.50
12-1 am	0.39	0.43	0.50	0.50
1-2 am	0.66	0.45	0.53	0.50
2-3 am	0.47	0.47	0.52	0.44
3-4 am	0.60	0.26	0.49	0.20
4-5 am	0.45	0.51	0.58	0.44
5-6 am	0.62	0.48	0.64	NA
Overall parity	0.41	0.42	0.43	0.43
Daily survival ( p )	0.700	0.707	0.713	0.713
Total mosquitoes ( n )	842	1,218	645	343

Heterogeneity was noted in the proportion parous for An. farauti collected 6-7 pm as compared to the other hours of the night in Lata and Pala during Oct 2008 (χ² = 5.67, P > 0.05).

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