Hacker News with Generative AI: Mosquitoes

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.
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.
Mosquitoes sense infrared from body heat to help track humans down, study shows (phys.org)
A Massachusetts town closes its parks to stop a mosquito-borne disease (npr.org)
Town urges curfew over mosquito-spread disease that kills up to 50% of people (arstechnica.com)