Hacker News with Generative AI: Mosquitoes

Targeting Mosquito Spit Could Stop Parasites in Their Tracks (the-scientist.com)
A protein found in the saliva of Anopheles gambiae stopped blood from clotting in the insects’ stomachs and aided parasite transmission.

Science, Biology, Medicine, Mosquitoes, Parasites

3 points by gmays 11 days ago | 0 comments

Study offers clues into when and why mosquitoes bite (news.yale.edu)
As mosquitoes and mosquito-borne illnesses like dengue fever spread across the world, researchers say that a key strategy to prevent these illnesses may be dissuading the insects from biting their victims in the first place.

Science, Health, Mosquitoes, Dengue Fever

55 points by gmays 88 days ago | 51 comments

Larvicidal Activity of Hemp Extracts and CBD Against the Yellow Fever Mosquito (mdpi.com)
To mitigate pyrethroid resistance in mosquito vectors of emerging and re-emerging human pathogens, there is an urgent need to discover insecticides with novel modes of action.

Insecticides, Mosquitoes, Public Health, Hemp, CBD

4 points by PaulHoule 112 days ago | 0 comments

Mosquitoes sense infrared from body heat to help track humans down, study shows (phys.org)

Mosquitoes, Science, Biology, Infrared

9 points by PaulHoule 140 days ago | 2 comments

A Massachusetts town closes its parks to stop a mosquito-borne disease (npr.org)

Public Health, Mosquitoes, Massachusetts, Diseases

32 points by mooreds 145 days ago | 38 comments

Town urges curfew over mosquito-spread disease that kills up to 50% of people (arstechnica.com)

Public Health, Disease, Mosquitoes, Curfew

8 points by _Microft 149 days ago | 0 comments