Background: Despite the overall major impact of Long Lasting Insecticide treated Nets (LLINs) in eliciting individual and collective protection to malaria infections, some sub-Saharan Countries, including Burkina Faso, still carry a disproportionately high share of the global malaria burden. This study aims to analyse the possible entomological bases of LLIN limited impact, focusing on a LLIN-protected village in the Plateau Central region of Burkina Faso. Methods: Human Landing Catches (HLCs) were carried out in 2015 both indoors and outdoors at different time-windows during the highest biting activity phase for Anopheles gambiae s.l. Collected specimens were morphologically and molecularly identified and processed for Plasmodium detection and L1014F insecticide-resistance allele genotyping. Results: Almost 2.000 unfed An. gambiae s.l. (54% Anopheles coluzzii , 44% Anopheles arabiensis ) females landing on human volunteers were collected, corresponding to a median number of 23.5 females/person/hour. No significant differences are observed in median numbers of mosquitoes collected indoor and outdoor, nor between sporozoite rates in An. coluzzii (6.1%) and An. arabiensis (5.5%). The estimated median hourly Entomological Inoculation Rate (EIR) on volunteers is 1.4 infective bites/person/hour. Results do not show evidence of the biting peak during night hours typical for An. gambiae s.l. in the absence of bednet protection. The frequency of L1014F resistant allele (N=285) was 66% in An. coluzzii and 38% in An. arabiensis . Conclusions: The observed biting rate and sporozoite rates are in line with the literature data available for An. gambiae s.l . in the same geographical area before LLIN implementation and highlight high levels of malaria transmission in the study village. Homogeneous biting rate throughout the night and lack of preference for indoor-biting activity suggest the capacity of both An. coluzzii and An. arabiensis to adjust their host-seeking behaviour to bite humans despite bednet protection, accounting for the maintenance of high rates of mosquito infectivity and malaria transmission. These results – despite being limited to a local situation in Burkina Faso – represent a paradigmatic example of how high densities and behavioural plasticity in the vector population may contribute to explain the limited impact of LLINs on malaria transmission in holo-endemic Sudanese savannah areas in West Africa.