"With fewer natural options available, mosquitoes are forced to seek new, alternative blood sources. They end up feeding more ...

As forests shrink and wildlife disappears, mosquitoes are increasingly turning to people for their blood meals.

Once mosquitoes acquire a new food source, they tend to develop a preference for that particular blood—and humans are one ...

"With fewer natural options available, mosquitoes are forced to seek new, alternative blood sources," said co-author Sergio ...

And now a new study finds that when humans encroach on wild places, these insects may develop a special taste for human blood ...

Mosquitoes ’ thirst for human blood is rising, reveals new research. Scientists found that some of the blood-sucking insects ...

As deforestation shrinks Brazil’s Atlantic Forest, mosquitoes that once fed on many animal species are increasingly turning to human blood.

Stretching along the Brazilian coastline, the Atlantic Forest is home to hundreds of species of birds, amphibians, reptiles, ...

The findings might overturn a widely held belief that only females pose a disease risk to people, though more research is needed. Reading time 4 minutes The mosquito scourge might somehow be even ...

Researchers working in Brazil’s Atlantic Forest found that mosquitoes captured deep inside nature reserves showed a striking ...

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — It’s lunchtime at the Salt Lake City Mosquito Abatement District and a colony of sabethes cyaneus — also known as the paddle-legged beauty for its feathery appendages and ...

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