Female mosquitoes require blood from their host for egg development. However, the
relationship between the composition of host blood and mosquito reproduction, and whether …

Highlights•Context emerges from the interaction between an animal's internal state and its
external environment.•Internal states can last from minutes to weeks.•Environmental …

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 …

The interactions between mosquitoes and plants and, particularly, between mosquitoes and
plant sugars from flowers and other structures are often overlooked and are vastly …

Ecosystems comprise networks of interacting species, but a missing piece of the
evolutionary puzzle is how these interactions emerge and take on the forms that we observe …

The mosquitoes Aedes aegypti and Anopheles gambiae are vectors of major medical
importance, incriminated in over half a million lives lost annually. While there has been …

The majority of the world's population is at risk of one or more mosquito-borne diseases that
are transmitted by blood-feeding female mosquitoes, affecting both human health and …