How mosquitoes smell human sweat (and new ways to stop them)
Thursday, March 28, 2019 - 11:10
in Biology & Nature
Female mosquitoes are known to rely on an array of sensory information to find people to bite, picking up on carbon dioxide, body odor, heat, moisture, and visual cues. Now researchers have discovered how mosquitoes pick up on acidic volatiles found in human sweat.