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Male mosquitoes may hang around humans to pick up females

Male Aedes aegypti mosquitoes are attracted to people despite not drinking blood, suggesting they hang around us to find thirsty females

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Aedes aegypti mosquito

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Many mosquitoes are now insecticide-resistant in Vietnam and Cambodia

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The biotechnology firm Oxitec has released boxes throughout Brazil that contain genetically-modified male mosquitoes of the species Aedes aegypti

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Genetically modified mosquitoes cut the insect's number by 96 per cent

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A female Aedes aegypti mosquito may be attracted to people with more carboxylic acids in their sweat

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Acids in our body odour make some people more attractive to mosquitoes

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Mosquito close up

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Mosquitoes have more ways to smell us than we thought

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How kids are winning the fight against dengue fever in a Rio favela

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How kids are winning the fight against dengue fever in a Rio favela

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Swatted dead mosquito

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AI learns how to recognise the species of splatted mosquitoes

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Roughly one dozen mosquitoes rest upon a white piece of fabric

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The US military is making uniforms with built-in bug spray

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Nearly a third of bites by malaria-carrying mosquitoes are in the day

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A Culex mosquito, the genre of insect that can spread Japanese encephalitis

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Australia’s Japanese encephalitis outbreak blamed on climate change

Australia's record-breaking rainfall and flooding has provided an ideal breeding ground for Culex mosquitoes, which transmit the Japanese encephalitis virus

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Mosquitoes learn to avoid pesticides after just one non-lethal dose

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Robotic fish scares invasive species so badly that it cannot breed

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Can we finally wipe out malaria with a vaccine 37 years in the making?

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Malaria parasite hides in human blood by changing how its genes work

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