Mosquitoes use a triple threat of visual, olfactory, and thermal cues to home in on their human targets, a new Caltech study suggests. Photo credit: iStock Are you dousing your skin with bug repellents and lighting citronella candles to keep mosquitoes away? These efforts may keep them at bay for a while, but no solution is perfect because mosquitoes have evolved to use a triple threat of visual, olfactory, and thermal cues to home in on their human targets, a new Caltech study suggests. The study appears in the July 17 online version of the journal Current Biology. When an adult female mosquito needs a blood meal to feed her young, she searches for a host — often a human. Many insects, mosquitoes included, are attracted by the odor of the carbon dioxide (CO2) gas that humans and other animals naturally exhale. However, mosquitoes can also pick up other cues that signal a human is nearby. They use their vision to spot a host and thermal sensory information to detect body hea

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My integrated science teacher for junior sch talk say mosquitos wey dey sing for night no dey drink blood say dem be male and na leaf dem dey chop. He talk say na only d black and white female dey chop pesin. Na so I gallant, if mosquito make noise for my ear, I go smile say e no fit chop me. If I see am for my body sef, I go talk say na rest e dey rest.
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MasterKim:
Chai! I don suffer.
My integrated science teacher for junior sch talk say mosquitos wey dey sing for night no dey drink blood say dem be male and na leaf dem dey chop. He talk say na only d black and white female dey chop pesin. Na so I gallant, if mosquito make noise for my ear, I go smile say e no fit chop me. If I see am for my body sef, I go talk say na rest e dey rest.
My brodas my sistas, if u epp me see Mr Williams abeg contact me

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MasterKim:
Chai! I don suffer.
My integrated science teacher for junior sch talk say mosquitos wey dey sing for night no dey drink blood say dem be male and na leaf dem dey chop. He talk say na only d black and white female dey chop pesin. Na so I gallant, if mosquito make noise for my ear, I go smile say e no fit chop me. If I see am for my body sef, I go talk say na rest e dey rest.
My brodas my sistas, if u epp me see Mr Williams abeg contact me

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