[Review of in vitro feeding of bloodsucking anthropods].

A review on methods of in-vitro-feeding of bloodsucking arthropods is given. The most important sphere of application of these methods are the in-vitro-rearing, experiments of transmission of virulent and avirulent pathogens, investigations about the nutrition of haematophagous arthropods, and about the efficiency of phagostimulants, repellents et al. Composition, preparation and preservation of natural blood are briefly described. The kind and the handling of the blood and the suitability of methods depends on the bionomic and feeding behaviour of arthropods and on the specific task of work. The most important methods of the in-vitro-feeding are inoculation, capillary method, feeding from the absorptive substrats of from embryonated eggs, and especially feeding through membranes.