- Author: Jeannette E. Warnert
Mosquitoes are being turned into mosquito-control workers with the help of scientists at the UC Kearney Agricultural Research and Extension Center in Parlier, reported Barbara Anderson in the Fresno Bee.
Kearney, one of nine UC Agriculture and Natural Resources research and extension facilities across the state, houses a mosquito research lab led by UC Davis entomologist Anthony Cornel. Cornel and his staff are working with the Consolidated Mosquito Abatement District to tacking Aedes aegypti mosquitoes, which have plagued a...
- Author: Jeannette E. Warnert
The groundbreaking research released by the UC Davis Department of Entomology yesterday at 2 p.m. was picked up by some prominent media outlets, including the New York Times and Reuters.
"We found that mosquitoes can smell DEET and they stay away from it," UC Davis entomology professor Walter Leal was quoted in the Reuters article. "DEET doesn't mask the smell of the host or jam the insect's senses. Mosquitoes don't like it because it smells bad to them."
Earlier research by scientists at Rockefeller University concluded that...