Transmitting parasites from person to person, the blood-feeding mosquito is the crucial link in the malaria cycle. Explore research into mosquito genetics, the rise of insecticide resistance that has so hampered attempts at control, and attempts to combat this most dangerous of vectors.
Some of the key weapons in the fight against mosquitoes – insecticides – have become almost useless as the insects gain resistance to the chemicals. Janet Hemingway is investigating why. 03/10/02
How mosquitoes learn to associate odours with their human hosts to bite or with their preferred egg-laying places to lay their eggs is almost unknown at present. Philip McCall hopes to find out. 01/10/02
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