Mosquito's Sucking Blood Mechanism

Experimental analysis of the blood-sucking mechanism of female mosquitoes.

Pioneering studies have been conducted to reveal the functional characteristics of the two-pump system of the female mosquito. Mosquitoes are equipped with two pumping organs located in the head: the cibarial (CP) and the pharyngeal (PP) pumps. To analyze the functional relationship of these pumps during the blood-sucking process, micro-particle image velocimetry (PIV) and synchrotron X-ray mic...

Determination of Blood Groups from Meals of Blood-Sucking Insects

B. C. DAS, m.sc. (f/orn the Laboratory of the Imperial Serologist and Chemical Examiner to the Government of India, School of Tropical Medicine, Calcutta) mi.. * 'ie material.?Mosquitoes and bed bugs were ^ed on subjects of known blood groups an squashed on chemically pure filter-paper. stains so obtained were dried. _ The insects were bred from eggs in the Entom logical Department of the Schoo...

The Destruction of Mosquitos

oil (the substance recommended as the panacea by the British Medical Journal). Celli's experience with this substance, however, by no means leads him to give it the first place. In making their very numerous experiments Celli and Casagrandi take as the criterion for judging the larvicidal action of any given substance, the time taken to kill the larvre, and they consider any substance inefficac...

What Mosquitos Smell These Days

The War against Mosquitos

To the Editor of "The Indian Medical Gazette." Sir,? Many thanks for publishing my letter about Mosquito Brigades. My book on this subject is now nearly out. I enclose a list of our publications, and sent you some days ago my First Progress Sierra Leone Report. Now we send Annett and Dutton's Filaria Report, which you will see is a valuable work. Well, I do not think much has yet been done agai...