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Aedes aegypti mosquito

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Many mosquitoes are now insecticide-resistant in Vietnam and Cambodia

More than three-quarters of Aedes aegypti mosquitoes sampled in Vietnam and Cambodia were from strains that are extremely resistant to pyrethroid insecticides

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

Environment

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

Health

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

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Mosquito close up

Life

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

Health

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

Features

Swatted dead mosquito

Technology

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

Technology

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

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E8KPEP This Aedes aegypti female was from strain of mosquitoes named LVP-IB12, an acronym representing fact that these mosquitoes were

Life

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

Experiments show that two species of mosquitoes change their behaviour after exposure to five common pesticides, which could make the chemicals less effective

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Technology

Robotic fish scares invasive species so badly that it cannot breed

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Health

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

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Health

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

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Life

Mosquitoes evolved to suck human blood when they couldn’t find water

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