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Biting flies within Diptera, like mosquitoes, horse flies, and deer flies, have a piercing-sucking mouthpart instead of the sponging mouthpart.
In fact, there's only one good thing I can think of when it gets to mosquitoes.
And since we all smell different and produce chemicals on our skin that either attract or repel mosquitoes, some of us are just more attractive than others.
Either way, mosquitoes find us in the dark by sniffing us out.
And during my PhD, I wanted to know exactly what chemicals from our skin African malaria mosquitoes use to track us down at night.
But perhaps if we can attract these mosquitoes to traps, bait it with our smell, we may be able to stop transmission of disease.
So we set up an experiment where we put a naked volunteer in a large cage, (Laughter) and in that cage, we released mosquitoes to see where they were biting on the body of that person.
We tried, with a tiny little piece of Limburger cheese, which smells badly after feet, to attract African malaria mosquitoes.
In fact, it worked so well that now we have a synthetic mixture of the aroma of Limburger cheese that we're using in Tanzania and has been shown there to be two to three times more attractive to mosquitoes than humans.
One of the best ways of killing mosquitoes is not to wait until they fly around like adults and bite people and transmit disease.
He's going back to check the control holes again, but he's coming back to the first one, and now he's locking into that smell, which means that now, we can use dogs with these inspectors to much better find the breeding sites of mosquitoes in the field, and therefore have a much bigger impact on malaria.
It's a crazy story, but I believe it's perhaps the best and ultimate revenge against mosquitoes ever.
In fact, people have told me that now they will enjoy being bitten by mosquitoes.
And the question of course is, what would make someone enjoy being bitten by mosquitoes?
Here in this box, I have a cage with several hundred hungry female mosquitoes ... (Laughter) that I'm just about to release.
I'm sticking in my arm, I'm giving them a big juicy blood meal, I'm shaking them off, and we follow them through time to see these mosquitoes get very, very sick indeed, here shown in fast motion.
And three hours later, what we see at the bottom of the cage is dead mosquitoes ... very dead mosquitoes.
And I'm going to say, ladies and gentlemen, we have swapped the cards with mosquitoes.
So cheese, dogs and a pill to kill mosquitoes.
So for the last decade, I began seeking out these areas where the concrete yields to forest and the pines turn to cypress, and I viewed all these mosquitoes and reptiles, all these discomforts, as affirmations that I'd found true wilderness, and I embrace them wholly.
Mosquitoes have been around for over a hundred million years and over that time have coevolved with all sorts of species, including our own.
Horses, dogs, cats, they can all get diseases from mosquitoes too.
But the changing conditions change the latitudes and the areas where these microbial diseases can become endemic and change the range of the vectors, like mosquitoes and ticks that carry them.
If you put an anti-malarial gene drive in just 1 percent of Anopheles mosquitoes, the species that transmits malaria, researchers estimate that it would spread to the entire population in a year.
And when you get stagnant water, you get mosquitoes.
But it was still mostly in monkeys and, of course, mosquitoes.
Then when they land, the local mosquitoes begin to bite them and spread the fever.
By December of that year, it was being transmitted locally by the mosquitoes.
The virus is being locally transmitted by mosquitoes virtually throughout South America, Central America, Mexico and the Caribbean Islands Until this year, the many thousands of cases that have been diagnosed in the US were contracted elsewhere.
Well, preventing infection is either about protecting people or about eliminating the mosquitoes.
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