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 …

Indirect responses are defensive strategies by which plants attract natural enemies of their
herbivores that act as plant defending agents. Such defences can be either constitutively …

The mosquito gut represents an ecosystem that accommodates a complex, intimately
associated microbiome. It is increasingly clear that the gut microbiome influences a wide …

Background The aim of this field trial was to evaluate the efficacy of attractive toxic sugar
baits (ATSB) in Mali, where sustained malaria transmission occurs despite the use of long …

Malaria continues to be a major health problem in more than 100 endemic countries located
primarily in tropical and sub-tropical regions around the world. Malaria transmission is a …

Background Attractive toxic sugar bait (ATSB) methods are a new and promising" attract and
kill" strategy for mosquito control. Sugar-feeding female and male mosquitoes attracted to …

Gut microbial communities of mosquitoes can influence vector susceptibility to pathogens,
yet the factors that govern their composition remain poorly understood. We investigated the …

For a very long time, mosquitoes have been known or suspected to consume plant liquids.
Recently eclosed mosquitoes cannot survive long without consuming sugary plant liquids …

Background Sugar feeding is critical for survival of malaria vectors and, although
discriminative plant feeding previously has been shown to occur in Anopheles gambiae ss …

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 …