A mark-recapture experiment was carried out in northern Tanzania to determine whether
Anopheles arabiensis exhibits memory, by investigating if bloodfed individuals would return
to either the location or the host where or on which they had obtained a previous bloodmeal,
behaviours termed site-fidelity and host-fidelity respectively. Over 4300 mosquitoes were
collected from 2 houses, marked with different fluorescent colours according to whether they
were caught in cattle sheds,'cattle-fed', or within human bednets,'human-fed', at either …