Aedes aegypti and Uranotaenia lowii are mosquito species which use the acute hearing capabilities of their antennae for different purposes. Ae. aegypti males seek out potential mates by listening for ...

and darker colors could draw yellow fever (Ae. aegypti) mosquitoes; however, this only occurred when a puff of carbon dioxide (the gas humans exhale) was present. The study found that the insects ...

A single mating may be all an Ae. aegypti needs; she stores sperm inside her body, fertilizing separate batches of eggs as needed, up to several hundred at a time. Five or six occasions of egg ...

While the engineered mosquitoes allowed the researchers to look at responses of olfactory receptors, other neurons that might play a role in detecting humans were not imaged, notes DeGennaro, adding ...