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Tag: Aedes aegypti

Overhead view looking into a cylindrical container with thousands of newly emerged mosquitoes.

New Study Improves Sterile Insect Technique for Mosquitoes

Researchers in Florida find that male Aedes aegypti mosquitoes live longer when irradiated as adults rather than pupae, an important advance in protocols for deploying the sterile insect technique to manage wild populations of disease-transmitting mosquitoes.

Closeup of Aedes aegypti mosquito (mostly black in color with white stripes on thorax and legs) on skin, beginning to pierce skin with proboscis.

Why the Connections Between Cells Could be New Targets for Managing Insect Pests

The channels that link insect cells, known as gap junctions, control a wide array of biological functions. Biologists are exploring gap junctions as potential targets for new insecticides, and a new review in Annals of the Entomological Society of America examines existing knowledge and future directions for this line of research.