The mosquitoes are a serious threat to public health, since they known vectors of many life-threatening diseases. Mosquito-borne diseases cause millions deaths worldwide every year. While important maintain ecosystems, the aim is keep them out our personal space. People looking for alternatives synthetic mosquito repellents may find that some natural effective in protecting from bites. Natural ...

Mosquitoes are responsible for the most number of deaths every year throughout world. Bangladesh is also a big sufferer this problem. Dengue, malaria, chikungunya, zika, yellow fever etc. caused by dangerous mosquito bites. The main three types mosquitoes which found in aedes, anopheles and culex. Their identification crucial to take necessary steps kill them an area. Hence, convolutional neura...

BACKGROUND & OBJECTIVES Mosquitoes transmit diseases to >700 million people annually. Malaria kills three million persons every year, including one child every 30 sec. Worldwide there are >3000 mosquito species. In Iraq, 37 species have been identified in different surveys over several decades. We conducted an entomological survey to determine the mosquito species and their distribution in Iraq...

It was recently reported that when mosquitoes infected with P. berghei sporozoites feed on mice, they deposit approximately 100-300 sporozoites in the dermis. When we inoculate P. yoelii (Py) sporozoites intravenously (IV) into BALB/c mice, the 50% infectious dose (ID(50)) is often less than 3 sporozoites, indicating that essentially all Py sporozoites in salivary glands are infectious. Thus, i...

BACKGROUND & OBJECTIVES The number and productivity of larval habitats ultimately determine the density of adult mosquitoes. The biological and physicochemical conditions at the larval habitat affect larval development hence affecting the adult body size. The influence of biological and physicochemical characteristics on the body size of Anopheles gambiae was assessed in Jaribuni village, Kilif...

BACKGROUND Entomological methods may provide important tools for monitoring the transmission of filariasis in French Polynesia. In order to standardize our PCR method and refine our protocol to assess filarial infection levels in mosquitoes, we compared dissection of the vector, Aedes polynesiensis, with the poolscreening polymerase chain reaction (PS-PCR) assay. METHODS (1) Mosquitoes were c...

BACKGROUND Baited traps are potential tools for removal or surveillance of disease vectors. To optimize the use of counter-flow traps baited with human odor (nylon socks that had been worn for a single day) to capture wild mosquitoes in the Gambia, investigations were conducted at a field experimental site. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS Experiments employing Latin square design were conducte...

On the basis of 1115 records of Evarcha culicivora feeding in the field, we can characterize this East African jumping spider (Salticidae) as being distinctively stenophagic. We can also, on the basis of laboratory prey-choice experiments, characterize E. culicivora as having a specialized prey-classification system and a hierarchy of innate preferences for various categories of mosquitoes and ...

Abstract Background Africans pour dirty water around their houses which constitutes aquatic habitats (AH). These AH are sought by mosquitoes for larval development. Recent studies have shown the effectiveness of destroying in reducing malaria incidence. An agent-based model is proposed controlling malaria’s incidence through population sensitizing campaigns on harmful effects houses. Methods Th...

Pollution from nutrients in aquatic habitats has been linked to increases in disease vectors, including mosquitoes and other pestiferous insects. One possibility is that changes in mosquito microbiomes are impacted by nutrient enrichments and that these changes affect various traits, including larval development, susceptibility to larval control agents, and susceptibility of the adult mosquitoe...