Science news articles about 'female mosquitoes'

... time to spray. Leal said that another advantage of the gravid traps is that with the capture of one female mosquito, that eliminates not only her, but hundreds of her would-be offspring. "Each female ...

Male and female mosquitoes match pitch when in the mood

... tune to create a harmonic duet just before mating. Cornell entomologists have discovered that male and female mosquitoes (Aedes aegypti), which can spread such diseases as yellow and dengue fevers, " ...

... Eric Caragata used a system designed by Craig Williams to film the activities of male and female mosquitoes as they aged to find how the bacteria affected the insects' activity levels. According to ...

... drugs. Because it is uniquely effective at low mosquito densities, SIT might be just the thing ... offspring despite being sexually active. Because female mosquitoes only mate once during their lifetimes ...

... The study used a combination of approaches, including one in which the NC State scientists presented female mosquitoes with different types of bacteria and bacterial extracts, and, in Schal's words, ...

... a malaria-endemic region. Once the infected female mosquito leaves the aircraft, it can survive long ... summers followed by heavy rain causes mosquitoes to rush breeding and seek out more blood meals, ...

... and become infectious. But almost 90 percent of female mosquitoes -- which transmit the disease -- die within 12 ... . However, because about 10 to 20 percent of mosquitoes die off each day and the oldest ...