Internal and external drivers interact to create highly dynamic mosquito blood-feeding behaviour

GA Tung, DM Fonseca - Proceedings of the Royal …, 2024 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Blood-feeding, which is necessary for most female mosquitoes to reproduce, provides an
opportunity for pathogen transmission. Blood-feeding is influenced by external factors such …

Scaling artificial light at night and disease vector interactions into socio-ecological systems: a conceptual appraisal

BWT Coetzee, AM Burke… - … of the Royal …, 2023 - royalsocietypublishing.org
There is burgeoning interest in how artificial light at night (ALAN) interacts with disease
vectors, particularly mosquitoes. ALAN can alter mosquito behaviour and biting propensity …

Data-driven identification of potential Zika virus vectors

MV Evans, TA Dallas, BA Han, CC Murdock, JM Drake - elife, 2017 - elifesciences.org
Zika is an emerging virus whose rapid spread is of great public health concern. Knowledge
about transmission remains incomplete, especially concerning potential transmission in …

Defining the risk of Zika and chikungunya virus transmission in human population centers of the eastern United States

CA Manore, RS Ostfeld, FB Agusto, H Gaff… - PLoS neglected …, 2017 - journals.plos.org
The recent spread of mosquito-transmitted viruses and associated disease to the Americas
motivates a new, data-driven evaluation of risk in temperate population centers. Temperate …

Inferring the spatio-temporal patterns of dengue transmission from surveillance data in Guangzhou, China

G Zhu, J Liu, Q Tan, B Shi - PLoS neglected tropical diseases, 2016 - journals.plos.org
Background Dengue is a serious vector-borne disease, and incidence rates have
significantly increased during the past few years, particularly in 2014 in Guangzhou. The …

Human activities attract harmful mosquitoes in a tropical urban landscape

JM Lee, RJ Wasserman, JY Gan, RF Wilson… - EcoHealth, 2020 - Springer
Abstract Knowledge of the interrelationship of mosquito communities and land use changes
is of paramount importance to understand the potential risk of mosquito disease …

Comparing Light—Emitting—Diodes Light Traps for Catching Anopheles Mosquitoes in a Forest Setting, Western Thailand

P Jhaiaun, A Panthawong, M Saeung, A Sumarnrote… - Insects, 2021 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary A field study was conducted in a forest to compare the effectiveness of light
traps fitted with different bulbs across the wavelength spectrum. Ultraviolet (UV) fluorescent …

Day biting habits of mosquitoes associated with mangrove forests in Kedah, Malaysia

TNS T. Ismail, NF A. Kassim, A A. Rahman… - Tropical Medicine and …, 2018 - mdpi.com
Due to conservation and rehabilitation efforts, mangrove forests represent some of the
largest environmental niches in Malaysia. However, there is little information on the potential …

Biting rhythm and demographic attributes of Aedes albopictus (Skuse) females from different urbanized settings in Penang Island, Malaysia under uncontrolled …

NAF Muhammad, NF Abu Kassim, AH Ab Majid… - Plos one, 2020 - journals.plos.org
Urbanization could potentially modify Aedes albopictus' ecology by changing the dynamics
of the species, and affecting their breeding sites due to environmental changes, and thus …

Comparison of diurnal biting activity, life table, and demographic attributes of Aedes albopictus (Asian tiger mosquito) from different urbanized settings in West Java …

D Novianto, UK Hadi, S Soviana, HS Darusman - Acta Tropica, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract The Asian tiger mosquito, Aedes albopictus has well-adaptive behavior to
environmental changes, including human urbanization, and has an essential role as the …