I consider breeding mosquitoes of this genus difficult. I wonder if anyone is succeeding in raising. Another advice are welcome, such as type of food, place for oviposition, development time...
Good day Mr. Fabiano Carvalho,
For rearing Haemagogus leucocelaenus in insectaries, you need to know the source of their feeding (blood). In the following study, the blood feeding behavior of two species Hg. leucocelaenus and Hg. capricornii exhibited a preference for a primary source of feeding as from bird, human, and rodent irrespectively of location sites (Alencar et al., 2008).
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Carlos_Marcondes3/publication/23290740_Feeding_Patterns_of_Haemagogus_capricornii_and_Haemagogus_leucocelaenus_Diptera_Culicidae_in_Two_Brazilian_States_Rio_de_Janeiro_and_Goias/links/54161bbe0cf2bb7347db4546/Feeding-Patterns-of-Haemagogus-capricornii-and-Haemagogus-leucocelaenus-Diptera-Culicidae-in-Two-Brazilian-States-Rio-de-Janeiro-and-Goias.pdf
To rear your mosquitoes in a controlled room temperature would be helpful. Monitor air temperature & relative humidity from the most populated breeding sites for mosquitoes will lend you a clue on the optimal AT & RH. Mosquitoes have a preference for a confined compound area, not ventilated and darkness. Observe their foraging habits increase during night time, move left over dirty clothes from a bedroom corner etc...
Under the tropical hot weather, it is easy to rear them, and adult females deposit their eggs inside even relatively clean fresh rainwater, so to say about their added preference for dirty water.
Use two large plexiglass boxes allowing you to either have birds or rodents inside along your mosquitoes species. Your birds or rodents providing the fresh source of feeding.
You need to make the necessary arrangements to feed your birds or rodents by having a circle cut type of window within your plexiglass boxes. From this, you could insert your hand as exactly what they do for a baby incubator.
Be aware of rodents bites if you decide to choose them.
On top of that, you need to leave small holes cut covered with thin film allowing oxygen penetration and preventing your mosquitoes escape.
The source of blood feeding should be put in a different box and mosquitoes ready for breeding in the other one. You need to add an interconnecting device that allows you to open the access for the mosquitoes and close it once they have migrated to the box containing birds or rodents. That interconnecting device permitting only mosquitoes to pass throw.
Since the final purpose of your study is not explained, it is hard to give further ideas.
For collection purpose, once some mosquitoes emerged and became adults, you can use insect repellents in one plexiglass box to force them to shift to the other box and collect destructively with relevant sprayed chemicals your mosquitoes.
Do not forget that you need to follow the ethics of animals rearing rules etc ...
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3558218/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3558218/pdf/AJMB-4-114.pdf
The attached paper explain on how to catch your mosquitoes from the wild. That will increase your chance to have adult females ready to deposit their eggs in small containers of water put in your boxes.
Pierre (Martinique Island)
Article Feeding Patterns of Haemagogus capricornii and Haemagogus le...
Exélis, Thanks for the suggestions. My goal is to better understand the rearing of this mosquito genus to support various works.
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