Mosquitoes Are Drawn to Flowers As Much as People — Now Scientists Finally Know Why
Without their keen sense of smell, mosquitoes wouldn’t get very far. They rely on this sense to find a host to bite and spots to…
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Mosquitoes Becoming Resistant to Insecticide by Sensing Toxins Through Their Legs
Researchers at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine have identified a completely new mechanism by which mosquitoes that carry malaria are becoming resistant to insecticide….
Quieter Drones Inspired by the Physics of Mosquito Mating Ritual Sounds
Research could also lead to nontoxic method using sound to diminish mosquito breeding. Mosquitoes flap their wings not just to stay aloft but for two…
An ‘Invisibilty Cloak’ for Humans to Fend Off Mosquito Bites
DEET may chemically ‘cloak’ humans from malaria-carrying mosquitos, rather than repel them. Since its invention during the Second World War for soldiers stationed in countries…
Mosquito Warning: Increased Risk of Serious Infectious Disease As the Climate Changes
Researchers at Stockholm University have developed a method for statistically predicting the impacts of climate change on outbreaks of tularemia in humans. The study has…
Gene Editing Technique Suppresses Malaria Infection in Mosquitoes
Using a gene-editing technique known as CRISPR/Cas9, scientists have shown that inactivating the gene FREP1 reduces mosquitos’ susceptibility to infection with Plasmodium, a genus of…
Yale Study Shows Disease-Bearing Mosquitoes Adapt to Winters
Near Capitol Hill in Washington D.C., a population of mosquitoes capable of transmitting tropical diseases is hunkering down for a sixth straight winter. A new…
A New Way to Attack Malarial Parasites in Blood Cells
Researchers from Yale University detail a new way to attack malarial parasites in blood cells. Yale University researchers have found a new way to slow…
Spread of Disease-Carrying Mosquitoes in Europe Prompts Surveillance
Invasive mosquitoes carrying exotic diseases have made their entry into Europe. Diseases generally absent from Europe, like chikungunya and dengue fever have appeared around the…
Transgenic Mosquitoes Can’t Transmit Malaria
A team of researchers from UC Irvine and the Pasteur Institute in Paris have produced a model of the Anopheles stephensi mosquito that impairs the…
Genetically Modified Mosquitoes to Fight Diseases
Out of the 750,000 different species of insects covering Earth, there are about 14,000 that feed on blood, getting their sustenance by puncturing the skin…
How Mosquitoes Manage to Fly in the Rain
Mosquitoes are able to fly adeptly during a rainstorm as well as under clear skies, but how do they manage that feat? Since mosquitoes weigh…