Yes Sumodan, they can digest it, as a matter of fact, we feed our colonies here with blood that comes from Blood Centers collected in regular EDTA tubes.
Oh great. Thanks Dr. Bashir Ali and Dr. Dutra for sharing your experience. Have you tried blood from blood bags? How you people feed mosquitoes (membranes etc)?
Membrane feeding is the commonly adopted technique. It is not yet known, which blood mosquitoes prefer [blood without anticogulants or with anticoagulants] lalitha kabilan
Thank you all, I agree with membrane feeding and using anti-coagulant treated blood, but I prefer using animal such pigeons and rabbits for feeding mosquitoes because some time and especially with wild collected mosquitoes its not easy to be adopted to membrane feeding, so its better to have animals house with animals as source of blood feeding.