title: Observations on installment egg hatching in the brown saltmarsh mosquito, Aedes cantator.
abstract: Field collected, first generation female Aedes cantator were shown to produce heterogeneous eggs that exhibit variable hatch in response to serial inundations and cold conditioning in the laboratory. Nearly 85% of the egg batches exhibited some hatch with the first flooding, representing 69.4% of the total overall hatch. However, 56% of the same egg batches displayed further hatch with subsequent floodings and 34% showed partial hatch before and after cold conditioning. The significance of these findings is discussed in relation to the biology of Ae. cantator.
authors.affiliation: Department of Entomology, Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station, New Haven 06504.
authors.forename: T G
authors.initials: TG
authors.lastname: Andreadis
mesh_terms: D000330:Aedes / Q000254:growth & development*; D000818:Animals; D003080:Cold Temperature; D004463:Ecology; D005260:Female; D010058:Oviposition / Q000502:physiology*; D010063:Ovum