Multiple bouts of blood feeding by mosquitoes shorten the incubation period for malaria parasites and increase malaria transmission potential, according to a new study.

Trapped Amazonian mosquitoes reveal their last meals: humans, birds, and small mammals Date: February 23, 2017 Source: PLOS Summary: The mosquito Anopheles darlingi is the main vector of malaria ...

In natural settings, the female Anopheles gambiae mosquito -- the major malaria vector -- feeds on blood multiple times in her lifespan.

A study lead by a team of researchers from Virginia Tech and Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health claimed that multiple bouts of blood-feeding by mosquitoes shorten the incubation period for ...

Higher daytime temperatures are leading to an increase in mosquitoes seeking to draw the season's first blood meals in the Sacramento region.

Mosquitoes collected were Aedes aegypti, Ae. albopictus, Anopheles crucians, Culex atratus, Cx. nigripalpus, Cx. peccator, Cx. quinquefasciatus, Deinocerites cancer, Ochlerotatus taeniorhynchus, and ...

An. darlingi has been described as being mostly anthropophilic, preferring humans to other animals for blood-meals. But knowledge about how often the mosquitos bite other animals—as well as what ...