Controlling mosquitoes that carry human diseases is a global health challenge as their ability to resist insecticides now threatens efforts to prevent epidemics. Scientists from the CNRS, IRD, Université Claude Bernard Lyon ...
Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Jul 23, 2015
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Thanks to a mobile phone app, the tiger mosquito has been discovered for the first time to be present in Andalusia. The insect transmits diseases like chikungunya and dengue fever. This was made possible by public participation ...
Plants & Animals
Nov 7, 2014
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Patches of standing water that are close together are more likely to be used by mosquitoes to lay eggs in than patches that are farther apart, according to a new study from the University of Georgia. The findings, recently ...
Plants & Animals
Sep 26, 2019
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Health authorities in Paris fumigated areas of the French capital for the first time on Thursday to kill disease-carrying tiger mosquitoes whose rapid advance through northern Europe is thought to have been accelerated by ...
Ecology
Aug 31, 2023
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Officials say an Australian mosquito has made what is believed to be its first U.S. appearance in the Los Angeles area.
Ecology
Sep 16, 2014
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