The oviposition habits of natural populations of Aedes (S.) albopictus Skuse and A. (S.) polynesiensis Marks were observed by means of daily collections of eggs from a series of ovitraps. The females seldom laid all of their mature eggs in a single oviposition; instead they appeared to move from trap to trap, leaving behind each time only a few of the eggs they were capable of producing. It is possible that most of a given clutch is deposited, in several containers, during a single “trapday”; however, we do not know whether there are interruptions of a day or more between the successive layings of a single clutch. This type of oviposition behavior on the part of these small-container-breeding species may have arisen as a result of its possible survival value; it must be taken into account in field studies on oviposition attractants or repellents.
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Rozeboom et al. (1973) studied this question.