Mosquitoes track odors, locate hosts, and find mates visually. The color of a food resource,
such as a flower or warm-blooded host, can be dominated by long wavelengths of the visible …

Female mosquitoes that transmit deadly diseases locate human hosts by detecting exhaled
CO 2 and skin odor. The identities of olfactory neurons and receptors required for attraction …

All moving animals, including flies [1–3], sharks [4], and humans [5], experience a dynamic
sensory landscape that is a function of both their trajectory through space and the …

Multiple sensory cues emanating from humans are thought to guide blood-feeding female
mosquitoes to a host. To determine the relative contribution of carbon dioxide (CO 2) …

A globally invasive form of the mosquito Aedes aegypti specializes in biting humans, making
it an efficient disease vector. Host-seeking female mosquitoes strongly prefer human odour …

Mosquitoes rely on the integration of multiple sensory cues, including olfactory, visual, and
thermal stimuli, to detect, identify, and locate their hosts [1–4]. Although we increasingly …

Natural selection favours a restricted host breadth in disease vector mosquitoes, indicating
that there is an adaptive value associated with maintaining plasticity in host preference. One …

Highlights•Mosquitoes sense exhaled CO 2 and skin odor to find humans.•Attractive
odorants can be used as lures in mosquito traps.•Inhibitors of the mosquito CO 2 receptor …

Female Aedes aegypti mosquitoes show strong innate attraction to humans. This
chemosensory behavior is critical to species survival because females require a blood-meal …

Mosquitoes detect the presence of humans by integrating chemosensory, thermal, and
visual cues. Among these, odors are crucial for mosquito host detection. Insects have …