Anthropophilic female mosquitoes are well known for their strong attraction to human hosts,
but plant nectar is a common energy source in their diets. When sugar sources are scarce …

Blood-feeding mosquitoes survive by feeding on nectar for metabolic energy but require a
blood meal to develop eggs. Aedes aegypti females must accurately discriminate blood and …

Female mosquitoes use chemical and physical cues, including vision, smell, heat, and
humidity, to orient toward hosts. Body odors are produced by skin resident bacteria that …

Mosquitoes use plant sugars and vertebrate blood as nutritional resources. When searching
for blood hosts, some mosquitoes express preferential behavior for selected species. Here …

Mosquitoes are important vectors of disease and require sources of carbohydrates for
reproduction and survival. Unlike host-related behaviors of mosquitoes, comparatively less …

Mosquitoes that act as disease vectors rely upon olfactory cues to direct several important
behaviors that are fundamentally involved in establishing their overall vectorial capacity. Of …

Highlights•Non-energetic nutrients or micronutrients are essential for mosquito
physiology.•Free amino acids play important roles in digestion, flight physiology and …

Plant-nectar-derived sugar is the major energy source for mosquitoes, but its influence on
vector competence for malaria parasites remains unclear. Here, we show that Plasmodium …

The environment, directly and indirectly, affects many mosquito traits in both the larval and
adult stages. The availability of food resources is one of the key factors influencing these …

Sugar feeding is a fundamental characteristic of mosquito life. Most evidence indicates
frequent ingestion by both sexes and all ages of mosquitoes of plant sugar, usually as floral …