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Effects of different diets on Aedes aegypti adults: improving rearing techniques for sterile insect technique

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 September 2023

Aynoanne Leandro Barbosa ,
Glayciane Costa Gois ,
Verenna Barros dos Santos ,
Aline Taiane de Macedo Pinto ,
Bianca Pires de Castro Andrade ,
Lucas Barbosa de Souza ,
Fernanda Hohana Almeida e Sá ,
Jair Fernandes Virginio  and
Mário Adriano Ávila Queiroz Open the ORCID record for Mário Adriano Ávila Queiroz [Opens in a new window]
Aynoanne Leandro Barbosa
Affiliation:
Universidade Federal Rural de Pernambuco, Recife, PE 52171-900, Brazil
Glayciane Costa Gois
Affiliation:
Universidade Federal do Vale do São Francisco, Petrolina, PE 56300-000, Brazil
Verenna Barros dos Santos
Affiliation:
Moscamed Brasil Biofactory, Juazeiro, BA 48909-733, Brazil
Aline Taiane de Macedo Pinto
Affiliation:
Moscamed Brasil Biofactory, Juazeiro, BA 48909-733, Brazil
Bianca Pires de Castro Andrade
Affiliation:
Moscamed Brasil Biofactory, Juazeiro, BA 48909-733, Brazil
Lucas Barbosa de Souza
Affiliation:
Moscamed Brasil Biofactory, Juazeiro, BA 48909-733, Brazil
Fernanda Hohana Almeida e Sá
Affiliation:
Moscamed Brasil Biofactory, Juazeiro, BA 48909-733, Brazil
Jair Fernandes Virginio
Affiliation:
Moscamed Brasil Biofactory, Juazeiro, BA 48909-733, Brazil
Mário Adriano Ávila Queiroz*
Affiliation:
Universidade Federal do Vale do São Francisco, Petrolina, PE 56300-000, Brazil
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Corresponding author: Mário Adriano Ávila Queiroz; Email: [email protected]
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Abstract

The aim was to evaluate the effect of different energy diets available in adulthood on the longevity, dispersal capacity and sexual performance of Aedes aegypti produced under a mass-rearing system. To evaluate the effects of diets in relation to the survival of the adult male insects of Ae. aegypti, six treatments were used: sucrose at a concentration of 10%, as a positive control (sack10); starvation, as a negative control (starvation); sucrose at a concentration of 20% associated with 1 g/l of ascorbic acid (sac20vitC); wild honey in a concentration of 10% (honey10); demerara sugar in a 10% concentration (demerara10); and sucrose at a concentration of 20% associated with 1 g/l of ascorbic acid and 0.5 g/l of amino acid proline (sac20vitCPr). Each treatment had 16 cages containing 50 adult males. For the tests of flight ability and propensity to copulation, five treatments were used (saca10; sac20vitC; mel10; demerara10; and sac20vitCPr), with males each for flight ability and females copulated by a single male for copulation propensity. The diet composed of sucrose at a concentration of 20% associated with ascorbic acid, as an antioxidant, improved the survival, flight ability and propensity to copulate in Ae. aegypti males under mass-rearing conditions, and may be useful to enhance the performance of sterile males, thus improving the success of sterile insect technique programmes.

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copulation propensityflight abilitysterile malesurvival
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Bulletin of Entomological Research , Volume 113 , Issue 6 , December 2023 , pp. 748 - 755
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