Data from: Life history metrics for <i>Culex tarsalis </i>(Diptera: Culicidae) and <i>Culicoides sonorensis </i>(Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) are not impacted by artificial feeding on defibrinated versus EDTA-treated blood
<p dir="ltr">Artificial blood feeding is a common practice for the study and maintenance of blood-feeding arthropod colonies. Commercially purchased blood is often treated to prevent clot-formation using either mechanical or chemical means. For many hematophagous insects, the effect that different anticoagulation …