Sentences with phrase «engorged mosquitoes»

The biting midge Culicoides (Trithecoides) anophelis Edwards is a predator of engorged mosquitoes, which was first described by Edwards in 1922 [1].

DNA was isolated from engorged mosquitoes to determine the source of their last meal.

By extracting blood from the stomach of engorged mosquitoes, Theodore Andreadis and his colleagues found that 40 percent of the infected mosquitoes had feasted on the blood of the American robin, a species that can carry the virus without showing symptoms.

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But even preventing a small number of bites could have a huge impact because a female mosquito must engorge herself with a blood meal at least twice to transmit a disease such as malaria or dengue — once to contract the disease, and again to pass it along.

The jumping spider Evarcha culicivora hunts mosquitoes, preferably those engorged with human blood.