Artificial Bloodfeeder Glytube: Evaluating Different Types of Membranes and Blood Sources for Feeding Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus.

Mosquito colony maintenance in the laboratory is essential for research but presents logistical and ethical problems with the use of live animals for bloodfeeding. The Glytube is an artificial bloodfeeding system for mosquitoes that uses Parafilm-M® membrane and human blood to feed Aedes aegypti. This study evaluated the efficiency of Glytube with different types of membranes and chicken blood to feed Ae.