Fig. 5

Human blood meals predominate across ecological sites. Consistent with being highly anthropophilic, A. gambiae and A. coluzzii samples carrying visually detectable blood meals most often contain human blood meals across geographic study sites. Mosquitoes from the arid and humid savannah display a proportion of animal blood meals, while semi-forest and deep forest mosquitoes appear to be entirely human-feeding. Anopheles coluzzii captured in the arid savannah are more likely to have consumed an animal blood meal than A. coluzzii from the humid savannah (Fisher’s exact test, p = 0.03). Anopheles gambiae captured in the humid savanna were significantly more likely to contain animal blood meals than A. gambiae from the semi- and deep forest zones (Fisher’s exact test, p < 0.001). Animal blood meals were derived from cows, dogs, donkeys, and sheep. Graph labels, *p < 0.05, **p < 0.001