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This paper examines one component of the life-cycle, namely, the ingestion of microfilariae by the simuliid vector, to assess the relationship between intake of larvae and the density of parasites in the skin of the human host. Analysis is based on data from three areas in which onchocerciasis is endemic and includes published information as well as new data collected in field studies. The three areas are: Guatemala (<jats:italic>Simulium ochraceum sl<\/jats:italic>.), West and Central Africa (savanna members of the<jats:italic>S. damnosum<\/jats:italic>complex), and South Venezuela (<jats:italic>S. guianense<\/jats:italic>). The data record experimental studies of parasite uptake by flies captured in the field and fed to repletion on locally infected subjects who harboured varying intensities of dermal microfilarial infection. Regression analyses of log transformed counts of parasite burdens ingested by the flies plotted against log transformed counts of microfilariae per mg of skin revealed little evidence for saturation in parasite uptake by the flies as the intensity in the human host increased. There was a positive and highly significant rank correlation between both variables for the three blackfly species. In an alternative analysis a model was fitted to data on prevalence of flies with ingested microfilariae (mff) versus dermal mean intensities. The model assumed an overdispersed distribution of the number of mff\/fly and a given functional relationship between intake and skin load. The results of both approaches were consistent. It is concluded that parasite ingestiossssn by the vector host is not strongly density dependent in the three geographical areas and ranges of dermal loads examined. 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