[
    {
        "id": "osp-13559",
        "type": "article-journal",
        "title": "Comparison of the Physiological age of Adult Resting Versus Flying Culex Quinquefasciatus (Diptera: Culicidae)",
        "author": [
            {
                "family": "Roberts",
                "given": "Derek M."
            }
        ],
        "URL": "https://omanscience.com/ar/articles/comparison-of-the-physiological-age-of-adult-resting-versus-flying-culex-quinquefasciatus-diptera-culicidae",
        "language": "en",
        "issued": {
            "date-parts": [
                [
                    2010
                ]
            ]
        },
        "container-title": "Sultan Qaboos University Journal for Science",
        "volume": "15",
        "page": "9",
        "DOI": "10.24200/squjs.vol15iss0pp9-17",
        "publisher": "Sultan Qaboos University",
        "ISSN": "2308-3921",
        "abstract": "Relatively little is known about the physiological age of resting mosquitoes. In this study, Culex quinquefasciatus Say had a similar proportion of males (75%) in the resting as in the flying population (76%), but among the females, there were significant differences between the physiological age of the resting and flying populations. The proportion of unfed females (51%) was significantly smaller in the resting than in the flying female group (82%). By contrast, in the resting group, there were much higher proportions of blood-fed (28% compared with 4%) and to a lesser extent gravid (21% compared with 14%) females. Of the blood-fed females, most of the resting individuals were freshly blood-fed. Both males and females entered the resting traps throughout the day (but none were collected after sunset), with the main peak around dawn. The flying population showed two circadian peaks: a larger peak at dawn and smaller peak after sunset. This indicates a different pattern from that shown in other studies and demonstrates the significant geographic variation within this pan-tropical species."
    }
]