Hosts of haematophagous arthropods range from amphibians to mammals. Blood meal is essential for egg production. Quantity and quality of ingested blood are important in realization of optimum reproductive potentials. In terms of egg production, the lowest nutritive value is for human blood. This inequality is probably based on differences in proteins and their constituent amino acids. Carbohydrates in the diet have no direct contribution to reproduction. Very little is known about sterol. lipid, vitamin and salt requirements for reproduction. In the mosquito Aedes aegypti some substance from the blood meal is thought to initiate vitellogenesis and is sustained by a complex hormonal mechanism in which median neurosecretory cells, corpus allatum, fat body and ovary participate. Mechanical stimuli from gut distension also has a role in hormone induction.Autogenous egg production seen in many dipterans is controlled both by the nutrition of the immature stages and genetic mechanisms.Quantity and the rate of utilization of the ingested blood decide the frequency of host visitation and feeding. Vertebrate blood sera contain substances which stimulate (secretogogue) as well as inhibit digestion. Nutrition plays some role in male maturation in insects, though not in spermatogenesis. In many ticks even spermatogenesis is influenced by adult blood meal.