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Message: <blockquote data-quote="newfie" data-source="post: 2968354" data-attributes="member: 58700">The body size of individual male and female Aedes aegypti, recorded as the cubic value of wing length, was correlated with total protein, lipid, and carbohydrate reserves at eclosion. Protein and carbohydrate had a linear relationship, whereas lipids were positively allometric and sex-specific; per unit size, males had substantially higher lipid levels than females. A wide spectrum of imaginal body size resulted by varying larval rearing conditions (crowding, starvation, and optimal food supply), but regardless of treatment, teneral reserves conformed to regression equations related to body size. Therefore, larval food supply was of primary importance in determining imaginal body size and reserves</blockquote>