Posts Tagged: mosquito

Doctoral Candidate Lindsey Mack: Zeroing in on the Yellow Fever Mosquito

Doctoral candidate Lindsey Mack of the lab of medical entomologist-geneticist Geoffrey Attardo, associate professor, UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology,  is zeroing in on the yellow fever mosquito, Aedes aegypti, first...

Aedes aegypti, the yellow fever mosquito. (Photo courtesy of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)

Aedes aegypti, the yellow fever mosquito. (Photo courtesy of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)

Those Goofy-Looking Cartoon Characters Called Crane Flies

Back in April of 2021, we wrote: "They're out there, and you don't have to crane your neck to see them." The topic: crane flies. They're often mistakenly called "mosquito eaters" or "mosquito hawks." They're neither. They're members of the family...

A crane fly resting in a Spanish lavender bed in Vacaville, Calif. Crane flies are sometimes called "mosquito eaters," but they do not eat mosquitoes. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

A crane fly resting in a Spanish lavender bed in Vacaville, Calif. Crane flies are sometimes called "mosquito eaters," but they do not eat mosquitoes. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Congrats to UC Davis Postdoc Olivia Winokur: Winner of AMCA's Hollandsworth Prize

Congratulations to UC Davis postdoctoral scholar and vector-borne disease specialist Olivia Winokur of the Chris Barker lab who won the $2600 Hollandsworth Prize for best student research presentation at the American Mosquito Control...

Congratulating Olivia Winokur (center), recipient of the Hollandsworth Prize for best student presentation at the American Mosquito Control Association (AMCA) annual conference are Casey Crockett (left), AMCA Student Competition coordinator, and Dennis Wallette, 2022-2023 AMCA president.

Congratulating Olivia Winokur (center), recipient of the Hollandsworth Prize for best student presentation at the American Mosquito Control Association (AMCA) annual conference are Casey Crockett (left), AMCA Student Competition coordinator, and Dennis Wallette, 2022-2023 AMCA president.

UC Davis Seminar: How This Virginia Tech Researcher Targets Mosquitoes

If you've ever been bitten by a pesky mosquito--who hasn't?--you're hoping researchers will some day be able to control them better and reduce the spread of the deadly diseases they transmit.  Enter molecular geneticist and mosquito researcher...

This is a female mosquito, the Asian tiger mosquito, or Aedes albopictus, laying eggs. (Photo by James Gathany, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)

This is a female mosquito, the Asian tiger mosquito, or Aedes albopictus, laying eggs. (Photo by James Gathany, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)

Megan Meuti's Way of Tricking Mosquitoes Into Not Biting You

You could say that entomologist Megan Meuti of The Ohio State University (OSU) messes with mosquitoes' circadian clocks. She's hoping she can trick Culex pipiens, the Northern house mosquito, into not biting us. As a recent...

An illustration from Megan Meuti's presentation.

An illustration from Megan Meuti's presentation.

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