Development of an Attractive Toxic Sugar Bait for the Control of Aedes j. japonicus (Diptera: Culicidae)

L Fryzlewicz, A VanWinkle… - Journal of Medical …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Both female and male mosquitoes consume sugar meals to obtain carbohydrates used for
energy. This behavior has recently been identified as a possible mosquito control target, as …

[PDF][PDF] Unveil the sugar diet and associated environmental compounds in the crop of the mosquito Culex pipiens

B Leyva, M Brustolin, R Müller, F Yon - Heliyon, 2024 - cell.com
Abstract Culex pipiens (Linnaeus, 1758) mosquitoes search plant sources of sugars to cope
with the energetic demand of various physiological processes. The crop as part of the …

Species composition of bacterial communities influences attraction of mosquitoes to experimental plant infusions

L Ponnusamy, DM Wesson, C Arellano, C Schal… - Microbial ecology, 2010 - Springer
In the container habitats of immature mosquitoes, catabolism of plant matter and other
organic detritus by microbial organisms produces metabolites that mediate the oviposition …

Host-feeding pattern and dengue virus detection of Aedes albopictus (Diptera: Culicidae) captured in an urban park in Korea

H Kim, H mi Yu, HW Lim, SC Yang, JY Roh… - Journal of Asia-Pacific …, 2017 - Elsevier
Aedes albopictus is well known to transmit dengue and chikungunya viruses. Recent report
that Zika virus is meditated by this mosquito highlights the importance of Ae. albopictus to …

[HTML][HTML] Meta-Analysis of Aedes aegypti Expression Datasets: Comparing Virus Infection and Blood-Fed Transcriptomes to Identify Markers of Virus Presence

KF Fukutani, JI Kasprzykowski, AR Paschoal… - … in bioengineering and …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
The mosquito Aedes aegypti (L.) is vector of several arboviruses including dengue, yellow
fever, chikungunya, and more recently zika. Previous transcriptomic studies have been …

Aedes albopictus is not an arbovirus aficionado-Impacts of sylvatic flavivirus infection in vectors and hosts on mosquito engorgement on non-human primates

H Cecilia, BM Althouse, SR Azar, BA Moehn, R Yun… - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
The contact structure between vertebrate hosts and arthropod vectors plays a key role in the
spread of arthropod-borne viruses (arboviruses); thus, it is important to determine whether …

Sugar Deprivation Reduces Insemination of Anopheles gambiae (Diptera: Culicidae), Despite Daily Recruitment of Adults, and Predicts Decline in Model Populations

CM Stone, RM Taylor, BD Roitberg… - Journal of medical …, 2009 - academic.oup.com
Our research tests the hypothesis that the inability to sugar-feed reduces the insemination
rate in mosquito populations. To test this, we measured the effects of sugar availability on …

[HTML][HTML] Assessment of synthetic floral-based attractants and sugar baits to capture male and female Aedes aegypti (Diptera: Culicidae)

K Fikrig, BJ Johnson, D Fish, SA Ritchie - Parasites & Vectors, 2017 - Springer
Background The viruses transmitted by Aedes aegypti, including dengue and Zika viruses,
are rapidly expanding in geographic range and as a threat to public health. In response …

Exposure of a diurnal mosquito vector to floral mimics: Foraging responses, feeding patterns, and significance for sugar bait technology

H Dieng, T Satho, NAB Arzemi, NE Aliasan, F Abang… - Acta tropica, 2018 - Elsevier
Food location by mosquitoes is mediated by resource-derived olfactory and visual signals.
Smell sensation is intermittent and dependent on the environment, whereas visual signals …

[HTML][HTML] Effects of Temperature on Blood Feeding and Activity Levels in the Tiger Mosquito, Aedes albopictus

K Costanzo, D Occhino - Insects, 2023 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Mosquito populations experience variations in temperature across space
and time as well as temperature rises associated with climate change. Our understanding of …