Sentences with phrase «mosquitoes feed on»

Mosquitoes feed on your dog's abdominal region, muzzle or ears — causing scratching, chewing and irritation.

When mosquitoes feed on a microfilaremic dog, they become heartworm vectors capable of transmitting heartworms to unprotected pets.

Actually, mosquitoes feed on the abdominal region of the dog.

But malaria - carrying mosquitoes feed on more than just blood — and this hunger can be exploited.

When the mosquitoes feed on birds harboring West Nile, they can then transmit the virus to humans.

In 2012, researchers at the Pasteur Institute in Paris recorded, via video microscopy, a mosquito feeding on a mouse.

A new study in Burkina Faso suggests that mass - administering ivermectin to people may kill or weaken the mosquitoes feeding on them, and thus make a dent in malaria transmission.

While the total number of human bites was highest in low - income areas, the proportion of mosquitoes feeding on people (50 %, by Ae.

When a mosquito feeds on an animal, larval forms of heartworms are injected into the animal.

Microfilaria live in the pet's blood for about one month and may, in turn, be ingested by mosquitos feeding on the pet.

When a mosquito feeds on an infected animal, it ingests these microfilariae, which develop into infective larvae inside the mosquito in about two weeks.2

When a mosquito feeds on the blood of an infected animal, it can easily transfer the larvae to other dogs and cats.

Microfilaria live in the pet's blood for about one month and may be ingested by mosquitoes feeding on the pet.

Common parasites like ticks, fleas and heartworm - carrying mosquitos feed on your pets.

When the mosquito feeds on your pet's blood, it deposits larvae called microfilariae into the bloodstream.

Infection begins when a female mosquito feeds on a dog whose blood contains the immature offspring of adult heartworms, called stage 1 larva, or «L1 microfilariae.»

Mosquitoes feeding on an infected dog pick up microfilaria and transmit heartworms to yet more animals.

Not exact matches

Atheists: I know many there are many people that practice religion just by fanaticism, I've seen many people in my opinion stupid (excuse the word) praying to saints hopping to solve their problems by repeating pre-made sentences over and over, but there are others different, I don't think Religion and Science need to be opposites, I believe in God, I'm Catholic and I have many reasons to believe in him, I don't think however that we should pray instead of looking for the cause and applying a solution, Atheists think they are smart because they focus on Science and technology instead of putting their faith in a God, I don't think God will solve our problems, i think he gave us the means to solve them by ourselves that's were God is, also I think that God created everything but not as a Magical thing but stablishing certain rules like Physics and Quimics etc. he's not an idiot and he knew how to make it so everything was on balance, he's the Scientist of Scientist the Mathematic of Mathematics, the Physician of Physicians, from the tiny little fact that a mosquito, an insect species needs to feed from blood from a completely different species, who created the mosquitos that way?

«Health Department officials confirm that the species of mosquito found to be infected with EEE generally feeds on birds, but prudence dictates we take every precaution to protect the public's health and safety when dealing with the potentially serious threat this disease poses to livestock and humans,» Picente said.

ELQ - 300 rapidly cured infected mice and killed parasites in mosquitoes that were allowed to feed on the mice shortly after infection, blocking further transmission to new victims.

The mosquitoes pick up the virus when they feed on one human and transmit it in their saliva to their next victim.

Disrupting a population could also produce ripple effects in other corners of the ecosystem, for example taking a food source from aquatic predators that feed on mosquito larvae.

Somewhere, they mused, a mosquito that fed on a dinosaur might be trapped in amber, and white blood cells from the dinosaur might be preserved in the mosquito's stomach.

The green groups obtained a study showing that 15 percent of the offspring of lab - bred GM mosquitoes survived when fed on cat food which contains low levels of tetracycline.

It has a different mode of action from other insecticides, meaning that it could also be effective against mosquitos that rest and feed outdoors, as well as mosquitoes that are resistant to the standard insecticides used on bed nets and indoor spraying.»

The East African jumping spider Evarcha culicivora evolved to feed preferentially on female mosquitoes that have recently had a blood meal, which it can identify by both sight and odor.

A spider that feeds indirectly on vertebrate blood by choosing female mosquitoes as prey.

This will provide information that could be used to illuminate how malaria — a disease which causes more than half a million deaths a year — is spread from human to human by parasite - infected female mosquitoes which bite people to feed on blood they need in order to reproduce.

Mosquitoes in Austria absorb the parasite when feeding on the dog's blood and are then able to infect further animals.

«Very little was known about what a host looks like to the mosquito and how a mosquito decides where to land and begin to feed,» said UW biologist Jeff Riffell, co-author on the paper and one of three professors collaborating on these efforts.

Stefan Kappe sticks his left hand into a mosquito - filled Plexiglas box and watches the bugs feed furiously on his blood.

She and her colleagues then exposed the stocking to caged mosquitoes, allowing them to land on it and poke it with their proboscises in a vain attempt to feed.

Genetic cues from male Aedes aegypti mosquitoes passed on during sex affect which genes are turned on or off in a females» reproductive tract post-mating, including genes related to blood feeding, egg development and immune defense, according to new Cornell research.

So scientists at Johns Hopkins tested their ability to do this, by allowing equal numbers of resistant and non-resistant mosquitoes to feed on the blood of malaria - infected mice.

Complicating study of the virus even further, a lab study found that an infected mosquito can pass the virus to nearby mosquitoes while they are feeding on an uninfected animal.

Salt marsh mosquitoes, on the other hand, pose a greater risk of disease transmission, says Andreadis, because they feed on birds about a third of the time and on mammals more than half the time.

Dr John Beier, co-author of the research from the University of Miami, said: «The presence or absence of Prosopis juliflora in villages has a significant influence on the size of the mosquito population in general, on their species composition, on the sugar feeding status and, the age structure of female populations.

In research funded by the Wellcome Trust, scientists and doctors at the Oxford University Clinical Research Unit at the Hospital for Tropical Diseases in Vietnam studied the factors that influence the transmission of dengue viruses from dengue patients to the mosquitoes that feed on them.

Likewise, sequencing blood from mosquitoes or leeches, known as invertebrate DNA (iDNA) sampling, can reveal which species they have been feeding on.

Evarcha specifically targets malarial mosquitoes that have just fed on blood, and it can tell them apart from other similar insects using its keen senses of vision and smell.

It's after mosquitoes that have fed on mammal blood.

For example, mosquitoes can be caught in a trap and blended into a «biodiversity soup» to analyse the DNA in the blood of the animals they have been feeding on.

That's because faster development meant less time exposed to predators — and also brought the mosquitoes» life cycle more into sync with that of the caribou they feed on, which are less mobile as they calve in early spring.

The next step is to show that the same thing happens not only when mosquitoes are forced into contact with the treated net, but also when they make contact naturally, as they attempt to feed on someone inside a net.»

«We suspect bacteria quickly colonize the waterborne debris, and mosquito larvae feed on the bacteria,» said Illinois entomology professor Brian Allan, a co-author on the study with Mackay, Illinois Natural History Survey entomologist Ephantus Muturi and U. of I. natural resources and environmental sciences professor Michael Ward.

The malaria parasite, Plasmodium falciparum, reproduces in the human liver before jumping to mosquitoes when the insects feed on human blood.

Mosquitoes acquire viruses by feeding on the blood of humans who are sickened with them.

Ballou, who now heads vaccine R&D in the United States at GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), and his team bred mosquitoes in an insectary, and then fed them on human blood infected with the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum.

Escaping blood - fed malaria mosquitoes minimize tactile detection without compromising on take - off speed.

While all mosquitoes seemed to prefer human blood, those carrying malaria at its infectious stage were significantly more likely to have recently fed on humans.