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Member Symposium

Blood Feeders: A New Frontier for Electropenetrography

Sandflies and mosquitos: what can we learn about bloodfeeders by comparing electropenetrography parameters of these two taxa?

Sunday, November 5, 2023
1:55 PM – 2:10 PM ET
Location: Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center, National Harbor 13
In-Person
Electropenetrography (EPG) has proven to be invaluable for describing and measuring the feeding activities of hemipterans and other plant feeding arthropods for over 50 years. Understanding basic probing behavior, host plant acceptance activities, response to chemical interventions, plant pathogen transmission biology and evolutionary relationships of plant feeders is the legacy of modern EPG science. The technology has finally become more mainstream for the study of another critically important group of piercing sucking arthropods: the bloodfeeders. For this talk, EPG waveforms from the mosquito, Aedes aegypti and the sandfly, Phlebotomus papatasi will be described and compared to see what further studies are needed to uncover and decipher information that may be hidden in their electropenetrographs