adult behavioural process behaviour of diurnal species IDOMAL:0002397 IDOMAL:0002397 WIld females exhibit peaks of alighting on vertebrate hosts and of oviposition at the beginning and end of the photophase. Captive females show a similar bimodal pattern with regard to flight activity, sugar feeding, response to host odour, and oviposition. When continuously exposed to sugar or host odour captive females showed significant levels of activity throughout the scotophase. idomal_namespace