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OVARIAN development in the mosquitoes Aedes (Ochlerotatus) impiger (Walk.) and A. (O.) nigripes (Zett.) has been studied at Hazen Camp, northern Ellesmere Island (71° 18′ W., 81° 49′ N.), a site only 150 miles south of the northernmost limit of land. Both species seek blood actively and, if able to engorge, use it to mature eggs in the usual way. A factor thought to limit their reproductive success is the low availability of blood, resulting from the scarcity of vertebrates and the prevalence of weather inimical to host-seeking during the brief flying season of the mosquitoes.
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CORBET, P. Facultative Autogeny in Arctic Mosquitoes. Nature 215, 662–663 (1967). https://doi.org/10.1038/215662a0
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