Mosquitoes make proteins to help them handle the stressful spike in body temperature that's prompted by their hot blood meals, a new study has found. The mosquito's eating pattern is inherently ...

Fossilized Mosquito Blood Meal. Researchers have discovered a 46-million-year-old female mosquito containing the remnants of the insect’s final blood meal. Written by Abby Olena, PhD. Abby Olena, PhD.

Chemical compounds discovered in a mosquito fossil from Montana offer scientists clues to what the very old insect ate before it died. The bug's final blood meal was likely from a bird ...

Kanazawa University. (2019, May 10). Making a meal of it: Mosquito spit protein controls blood feeding. ScienceDaily. Retrieved June 2, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2019 / 05 ...

For thousands of years malaria was a mysterious illness affecting people across the globe. Even the name of the disease, ‘malaria’, derived from two Italian words meaning ‘bad air’, highlights the ...

About 46 million years ago, a mosquito sunk its proboscis into some animal, perhaps a bird or a mammal, and filled up on a meal of blood. Then its luck turned for the worse, as it fell into a lake ...

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. Scientists set out to figure out why mosquitoes love the taste of blood so much, and ...

Blood-sucking insects may be the bane of your summer picnics, but they’ve been around for far, far longer: according to new research, mosquitoes that feed on blood have been around for at least ...

Some mosquitoes in New Jersey carry diseases, including the West Nile virus, eastern equine encephalitis and Jamestown Canyon ...

Specifically, Muijres and his colleagues looked at how Culex mosquitoes (which along with Aedes aegypti carry malaria and Zika) manage to take off when weighted down with a blood meal. Only female ...