Table 1 Mean times to oviposition and proportion of ovipositing females at each constant temperature.
Temperature | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Number of replicates | 15°C | 20°C | 23°C | 25°C | 27°C | 29°C | 31°C | 33°C | 35°C |
2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 1 | |
Total number of mosquitoes used | 100 | 100 | 200 | 200 | 180 | 210 | 200 | 200 | 100 |
Cohort 1 | 8.6 | 4.8 | 3.8 | 3.0 | 2.9 | 2.3 | 1.9 | 1.8 | 2.0 |
2% | 24% | 18% | 61% | 64% | 48% | 52% | 38% | 68% | |
Cohort 2 | 9.8 | 5.8 | 4.8 | 4.0 | 3.8 | 3.1 | 2.7 | 2.7 | 2.9 |
19% | 34% | 44% | 29% | 31% | 48% | 46% | 56% | 29% | |
Cohort 3 | 10.9 | 6.7 | 5.8 | 5.0 | 4.9 | 4.1 | 3.7 | 3.6 | |
10 | 18% | 27% | 7% | 4% | 4% | 2% | 5% | ||
Cohort 4 | 11.9 | 7.9 | 6.8 | 6.1 | 5.8 | 4.6 | 4.9 | ||
15% | 14% | 8% | 2% | 1% | 1% | 2% | |||
Cohort 5 | 12.9 | 8.9 | 7.7 | ||||||
17% | 6% | 3% | |||||||
Cohort 6 | 13.9 | 10.4 | |||||||
12% | 4% | ||||||||
Cohort 7 | 14.7 | ||||||||
6% | |||||||||
Cohort 8 | 15.7 | ||||||||
7% | |||||||||
Cohort 9 | 16.8 | ||||||||
7% | |||||||||
Cohort 10 | 17.8 | ||||||||
4% | |||||||||
Number of ovipositing nights | 10 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 4 |
Minimum time to oviposition | 8.6 | 4.6 | 3.7 | 2.9 | 2.5 | 2.2 | 1.8 | 1.6 | 1.9 |
Maximum time to oviposition | 18.3 | 10.8 | 7.8 | 6.3 | 5.8 | 4.0 | 3.9 | 4.6 | 4.9 |
GMTO (std. dev.) | 12.8 (2.40) | 6.4 (1.47) | 5.1 (0.91) | 3.5 (0.74) | 3.3 (0.60) | 2.7 (0.46) | 2.1 (0.43) | 2.4 (0.55) | 2.3 (0.56) |
IQR (days) | 3.13 | 1.46 | 1.04 | 1.00 | 0.97 | 1.73 | 0.73 | 0.85 | 0.88 |