Table 4 The influence of trapping method and experiment upon the proportion of sampled An. gambiae s.l. which were parous, determined by logistic regression as described in the methods section

Trap type

   Furvela

22.2 (35/158)

0.89 [0.55, 1.45]

0.849

   Ifakara A

30.5 (68/223)

0.99 [0.55, 1.45]

0.957

   Ifakara B

30.4 (106/349)

1.00 [0.73, 1.36]

0.999

   Light trap

15.2 (141/930)

0.97 [0.74, 1.27]

0.849

   Human landing catch

41.0 (293/714)

1.00^a

NA

Experiment

   Experiment 1

23.6 (168/713)

0.51 [0.39, 0.67]

< 0.001

   Experiment 2

28.6 (475/1661)

1.00^a

NA