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ensure accuracy. MALARIA: Obstacles and Opportunities FIGURE 2-4
Female Anopheles gambiae during a blood meal. (Photo courtesy of
Dr. Robert Gwadz, NIAID, NIH) may deposit a total of 200 to
1,000 eggs in three or more batches. Actual egg production is
dependent on blood consumption. After hatching, anopheline
larvae lie along the water-air interface, where it is thought
that they feed on organisms along the surface film. Adult
mosquitoes develop from the pupal stage within 2 to 4 days. An
adult mosquito will emerge from the egg stage in 7 to 20 days,
depending on the species of mosquito and environmental
conditions. Female anopheline mosquitoes can survive at least a
month under favorable conditions of high humidity and moderate
temperatures. That is sufficient time for them to take a blood
meal, for the parasite to develop, and