Sentence examples for mosquitoes were held from inspiring English sources

Unfed mosquitoes were held for a similar amount of time.

Mosquitoes were held for one week to allow for complete digestion of the bloodmeal, after which they were placed in ethanol, coded and analyzed for 5 variables: (δN, δC, %N, %C and C/N) in a double-blind manner (see Materials and Methods for details).

Mosquitoes were held for 4 days to allow for mating.

Mosquitoes were held for 5 7 days prior to blood feeding to allow for mating.

Live mosquitoes were held in netted plastic cups and supplied with 10% honey solution for 24 h before delayed death was recorded.

Engorged mosquitoes were held at 28°C, during a 16:8 light:dark photoperiod, and provided a 10% sucrose solution in cotton wicks.

For this, an incision was made through the lateral edge of the eighth abdominal segment using a feather blade and the mosquito was held vertically on a vacuum restraint with the abdomen pointing downwards.

He noted that the August weather, near the end of the local winter, will be less propitious for mosquitoes than if the games were held in the summer.

Most mosquito-exposed birds that survived WNV infection were euthanized at 14 dpi (House Finches were held until 21 dpi, and Rock Doves were held for 64 dpi).

Nine-year-old Irina Ilyukhina braved swarms of blood-sucking bugs as she went berry picking with her competitors in the Russian town of Berezniki, where the annual mosquito festival has been held for the past four years.

Five-day-old mated adult female Aedes albopictus (Houston strain) mosquitoes were either held without being bloodfed (Un; unfed), or allowed to feed for 15 minutes on a lightly-restrained chick (Ch; chicken) or on the arm of the author (Hu; human).