Mosquito Netting: There are no mosquitoes in the mid-Pacific.
Finally, the parasite returns to a mosquito when the insect bites an infected person.
Close to habitation, these two mosquito species multiply in collections of stagnant water, mostly in artificial containers.
But future strategies, in which the aim is to overwhelm mosquito populations with those that are resistant to disease, are more controversial because the mosquitoes survive and breed.
There's ready supply of fresh recruits nearby, where an intern feeds a saucer of goat blood to a colony of Anopheles stephensi, one species of mosquito that transmits malaria.
The mosquito is the disgusting thing.
The frog darted out its tongue to catch a mosquito.
But even the mosquito has been subdued by attention to drainage and by chemical sprays.
So researchers looking to cut mosquito populations might try figuring out a way to make them have trouble digesting a hot meal.
Obviously, I had made a mistake: there was a living soul between Del Rio and El Paso, one only mosquito, The Survivor, just beside me, around me, on me, zzzzz.
The mosquito is a transmitter of disease.
Viruses in mosquito saliva can be transmitted, but those in the gut cannot infect a new host when a mosquito bites.
He has a grant to develop a "mosquito flashlight" designed to knock out the bugs' eye-like sensors.
Using laser-triggered high-speed macrophotography, Dr. John H. Brackenbury of the University of Cambridge in Cambridge, UK, captured this image of a water droplet containing a pair of mosquito larvae.
Inside the mosquito the parasites develop and reproduce.
Cano identified it as a bacterial spore related to the modern Bacillus sphaericus, which is used to kill mosquito larvae.
The idea that helping mosquitoes, rather than destroying them, may be the way to eradicate malaria is pleasingly counterintuitive, even if it would mean more mosquito bites at night.
Instead of repellent fragrances, the mosquito Buster app USES sound to keep mosquitoes away.
For some people, a mosquito in the room is a threat to any little patch of exposed skin, while others seem to go unscathed.
silvery topminnow with rows of black spots of tropical North America and West Indies; important in mosquito control.
A mosquito netting completely surrounds our bed.
Reducing the risk of mosquito transmission.
In nearby Bengbu, they get washing powder or a special mosquito repellent gift set.
So precise is this sonar view of the world that bats can distinguish by size, shape and texture something as small as a mosquito.
On a window in Kotka, a slightly battered mosquito sits silhouetted against a mosaic of water drops, each reflecting spring sky and the crayon colors of nearby buildings.
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