Mass-rearing and mass-releasing sterile insects is a technique to eliminate harmful insects or to transform a species so that it no longer carries… Read more »
In this blog Dr Richard Samuels articulates and contextualizes the research put forward in a recent article published in Parasites & Vectors… Read more »
Mosquitoes are predominantly night feeders, but this is changing due to the selective pressure imposed by the use of bednets. Does… Read more »
Krisztian Magori (@BiteOfAMosquito) discusses the newest innovation in arbovirus surveillance, using mosquito excreta to test for… Read more »
Some mosquitoes have a strong preference for feeding on humans rather than other vertebrates. Our smell is one of the cues they… Read more »
With mosquito species adapting to feed outdoors, limiting the effectiveness of malaria prevention techniques like bed nets, there… Read more »
A recent study in Guangzhou, China provides a comprehensive overview of Aedes albopictus and insecticide resistance
In Part 1 of this three-part post, we focused on heartworm basics. Here and in part 2, we move on to the latest information… Read more »
In conjunction with publication of the Proceedings of the 15th American Heartworm Society Triennial Symposium in Parasites &… Read more »
Current vector control strategies involving LLINs and IRS are effective against malaria transmitting mosquitoes. However, the rise… Read more »
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