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The increasing proportion of early evening, morning, and outdoor biting reduces the effectiveness of core interventions like bed nets, which mainly protect people while sleeping indoors. In response, spatial emanators that release volatile active ingredients into the surrounding air to reduce human-vector contact offer a scalable, complementary strategy. This study evaluated the impact of BiteBarrier, a transfluthrin-based spatial emanator, over eight weeks of aging against multiple mosquito species in a semi-field system simulating both indoor and outdoor settings. We assessed the protective efficacy using both landing rate and feeding success methods across five mosquito species, including pyrethroid susceptible <jats:italic><jats:italic>Anopheles gambiae<\/jats:italic><\/jats:italic> sensu stricto (s.s.) and <jats:italic><jats:italic>Aedes aegypti<\/jats:italic><\/jats:italic>; <jats:italic><jats:italic>An. gambiae<\/jats:italic><\/jats:italic> s.s. with knock down resistance (KDR); and pyrethroid resistant <jats:italic><jats:italic>An. funestus<\/jats:italic><\/jats:italic> and <jats:italic><jats:italic>Culex quinquefasciatus<\/jats:italic><\/jats:italic> with upregulation of mixed function oxidases. The results show that the feeding endpoint provides more robust estimates of protective efficacy compared to the landing endpoint. 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