Aedes aegypti mosquitoes in Florida are most resistant to a common insecticide around dusk but most susceptible between midnight and dawn, a new study finds. A key contributing factor observed by researchers is that five key genes that produce detoxifying enzymes in the mosquitoes are affected by changes in light over 24-hour cycles. Here, a … Read more
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Specialized sampling for the study of culicids in different types of habitats throughout the entire autonomous community of Galicia has allowed the detection of breeding sites in most of the territory (64.3%), confirming that the region meets the optimal environmental requirements for the proliferation of different species of mosquitoes. The 14 species analyzed in the … Read more