The icy water is refreshing in the heat, and provides a reprieve from mosquitoes.
Genetically modify mosquitoes so they can't spread diseases such as malaria and dengue virus.
Nagged by rain, mud and mosquitoes, he hiked through woods and water with Finnerty's father, Tim.
It calls to mind mosquitoes on a continent tragically ravaged by those malaria-bearing insects.
Salt-water mosquitoes have a range of 100 miles and that's making tracking their breeding site difficult.
Most don't, but there are over 36 different species of mosquitoes in the Dallas-Forth Worth area.
They are consumed by birds and snakes and they in turn are major predators of mosquitoes.
Spread by biting insects such as midges and mosquitoes, there is no known treatment.
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So far this year they have found 219 infected birds and 75 infected mosquitoes.
Even a few mosquitoes, normally a plague in May and June, have buzzed in.
One could think about preventing people from getting bitten by the mosquitoes, and we do that.
Does it work on mosquitoes that are well fed as well as those who are not?
In the meantime, specialists say people should protect themselves against bites and stop helping mosquitoes breed.
That little window is protected by a thin cloth that the mosquitoes can bite right through.
The few mosquitoes that were trapped after spraying were thought to be newly emerging adults.
In a survey of the country's imams, 27.5% thought that mosquitoes could transmit HIV.
All she asks in exchange for identifying mosquitoes is a copy of their barcodes.
In India it is being used to track malaria and identify the areas prone to breeding mosquitoes.
Now mosquitoes have become resistant to many of these chemicals and fish are back on the menu.
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But the winds also drive away the mosquitoes, and break through that solid wall of summer heat.
Where they see magic, the locals see 90-degree heat, humidity and mosquitoes the size of small birds.
In fact, it is thought that female mosquitoes have a very weak sensitivity to sound in general.
There was once a moat, but 19th-century urban planners filled it in to get rid of mosquitoes.
And if mosquitoes are blind to your odor, then to them, it's as if you were invisible.
In general, mosquitoes find the poor inviting hosts, explains Peter Hotez of the Baylor College of Medicine.
The CDCP says record-high temperatures could well have helped the mosquitoes that transmit the disease to thrive.
It is now working on a modification that will arm malarial mosquitoes with antibodies to attack the parasites.
In 1998 Lippoff got what he thought was prized amber, with inclusions of flies, leaves, stems and mosquitoes.
Mosquitoes, and the West Nile virus that some of them carry, are thriving in California's plunging property market.
But until recently malaria, the infectious disease transmitted by mosquitoes, has had no gung-ho celebrity attached to it.
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