The complexity continues to the brain, the team found. “In mosquitoes, we saw a lot of overlap in the brain,” says Herre, with individual antennal lobe glomeruli receiving olfactory information from ...

As mosquitoes and mosquito-borne illnesses like dengue fever spread across the world, researchers say that a key strategy to prevent these illnesses may be dissuading the insects from biting their ...

Another question we get a lot as mosquito researchers is if you are more attractive to a mozzie, does this mean your blood is more nutritious? Although the basic composition of human blood is ...

Q: What do you call 8000 dead mosquitoes in a Mason jar? A: A good start. And [Dan Rojas]’s low-tech mosquito trap accomplished the feat in two nights with nothing fancier than a fan and a ...

As we enter the summer months, there are many things to look forward to like warmer weather and longer days. However, summer also means mosquitoes are at an all time high – why can’t we ever ...

Because a lot of our funding comes from the military ... Unit trains and works with partners around the world on mosquito identification. Here, Linton works with a partner in Tanzania.

Mosquitoes can survive prolonged droughts by drinking blood, which helps to explain why rates of mosquito-borne illness don't always decline in dry periods. Mosquitoes can survive prolonged ...

“There’s a lot of vegetation, a lot of nice nesting and roosting habitat” to attract the birds, he said. Birds are key to transmission of mosquito-borne illnesses. Humans can become infected ...

In addition, puddles of warm water that form from sudden evening showers are favored breeding grounds for mosquitoes. “There was a lot of such rainfall in many areas this year, so it is likely ...