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Aug. 11, 2023 Specific receptors in the ears of mosquitoes have been revealed to modulate their hearing, finds a new study. Scientists say, this discovery could help develop new insecticides and control the spread ...
Nov. 15, 2022 Male mosquitoes find mates by listening for the buzzing sounds produced by flying females. Now researchers have developed a technique using a serotonin inhibiting compound that disrupts the hearing ...
Mar. 16, 2022 In what they call surprise findings, scientists report that -- unlike fruit flies -- mosquitoes' odor sensing nerve cells shut down when those cells are forced to produce odor-related proteins, ...
Aug. 18, 2022 When female mosquitoes are looking for a human to bite, they smell a unique cocktail of body odors that we emit into the air. These odors then stimulate receptors in the mosquitoes' antenna. ...
Aug. 24, 2021 A recent study led by an entomologist explores the different kinds of cells that make up mosquito immune systems. The research could shed light on how mosquitoes transmit ...
June 15, 2022 A genetic discovery could turn disease-carrying mosquitoes into insect Peter Pans, preventing them from ever maturing or ...
June 17, 2021 The yellow fever mosquito spreads multiple untreatable viruses in humans and is primarily controlled using a pesticide called permethrin. However, many mosquitoes are evolving resistance to the ...
Dec. 4, 2023 Researchers have found the earliest-known fossil mosquito in Lower Cretaceous amber from Lebanon. What's more, the well-preserved insects are two males of the same species with piercing ...
Mar. 22, 2023 A mosquito known only by its scientific name, Culex lactator, is the latest to establish in the Sunshine State, according to a new ...
Feb. 17, 2022 Scientists have uncovered a set of neurons in fruit flies that shut down in cold temperatures and slow reproduction, a system conserved in many insects, including mosquitoes, which could provide a ...