Tag: mosquito

We know a lot about mosquito preferences up close, but how do mosquitoes find us from up to a hundred ...

The saliva of mosquitoes infected with dengue viruses contains a substance that thwarts the human immune system and makes it ...

Another new mosquito species has made its way across the tropics into Florida, making a permanent home in at least ...

New UC Riverside research makes it likely that proteins responsible for activating mosquito sperm can be shut down, preventing them ...

HOUSTON – (Feb. 9, 2023) – If watching animals feast on human blood for 30-plus hours isn’t your idea of ...

Mosquitoes: the world’s deadliest animal. These tiny flying insects are vectors for dengue fever, yellow fever, Zika, malaria, and many ...

A device developed at the University of Florida for the U.S. military provides protection from mosquitos for an extended period ...

In the age-old battle against mosquitos, DEET has proven effective at keeping this nemesis at bay, but the repellent is ...

It’s impossible to hide from a female mosquito—she will hunt down any member of the human species by tracking our ...

Annapolis, MD; October 4, 2022—With striking high-speed video footage, scientists have for the first time detailed how predatory mosquito larvae ...

Increases in three climate factors—temperature, rainfall, and ocean warming —predicted mosquito population growth in Sri Lanka for the next one ...

A molecule in mosquito spit has been identified as a potential new target for vaccination against a range of diseases ...

Mosquitos. Bane of backyard picnics — and deadly in Zika- and dengue-prone regions. Credit: Photo by Denise Applewhite, Princeton University ...

A novel class of bed net that kills mosquitoes resistant to traditional insecticides by making them unable to move or ...

In what they call surprise findings, Johns Hopkins Medicine scientists report that — unlike fruit flies — mosquitoes’ odor sensing ...