Why are some people "mosquito magnets"? We need your help to find out!
We are recruiting volunteers in the New York City area to participate in a research study about why mosquitoes choose to bite certain humans. We hope to find a group of people that is frequently targeted by mosquitoes and another group that is rarely targeted. We will study how attractive you are to mosquitoes and if there are substances in your blood or on your skin that explain how mosquitoes feel about you.
08/10/2013
Our mosquito study featured in the Daily Beast this week!
Mosquitoes Love Some People More and Science Wants to Know Why Dr. Leslie Vosshall studies the dining preferences of mosquitoes, with the goal of not just safer picnics but also more intel on West Nile, malaria, and dengue fever, writes Josh Dzieza.
02/05/2013
Beautiful new video from the Vosshall Lab of a female mosquito blood-feeding
Mosquito blood-feeding on a membrane feeder A female Aedes aegypti (the dengue and yellow fever mosquito) takes a bloodmeal from an artificial membrane feeder. The blood is warmed to 37˚C and covered b...
08/03/2012
Our mosquito study on CBS Sunday Morning (July 1, 2012)
Waging a losing war against mosquitoes Experts say fighting the spread of insect-borne diseases like West Nile virus is like an arms race - one mosquitoes are winning
08/03/2012
gory mosquito pamphlet
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08/24/2011
Our mosquito study featured in The New Yorker
Rebecca Mead: Why Do Certain People Appeal to Mosquitoes? Online version of the weekly magazine, with current articles, cartoons, blogs, audio, video, slide shows, an archive of articles and abstracts back to 1925
06/03/2011
FLOWER POWER: Lindy McBride (photo) and Laura Seeholzer (photographer) testing if our male mosquitoes respond to the scent of fresh flowers!
A really nice drawing of a mosquito!
Illustrations From ‘Wicked Bugs’ - Slide Show - NYTimes.com Briony Morrow-Cribbs’s drawings from the new book by Amy Stewart.
04/19/2011
From the Wellcome Collection in London, U.K.: "The malaria mosquito forming the eye-sockets of a skull, representing death from malaria. Colour lithograph after A. Games, 1941."
04/19/2011
Just another day at the lab...Leslie Vosshall's arm after feeding some hungry girl mosquitoes
04/19/2011
Everything you ever wanted to know about injecting DNA into mosquito eggs!
Vosshall Lab Mosquito (Aedes aegypti) Embryo Injection Protocol Conor McMeniman of The Rockefeller University and Ben Glass of Genetic Services Inc. demonstrate our protocol for mosquito embryo microinjection. This technique is useful for generating transgenic mosquitoes or generating mutant mosquito strains with Zinc Finger Nucleases. Contact us at mosquito@
04/17/2011
The debate over mosquito eradication. Your thoughts?
Ecology: A world without mosquitoes : Nature News Nature - the world's best science and medicine on your desktop
04/16/2011
Courtesy of Matthew Cobb (University of Manchester): "an engraving of a mosquito byJan Swammerdam (1637-1680) (he died of malaria...). It was originally published in 1669, and then redrawn, with scales on the wings, in the 1670s.It was published in this form in 1737 in his posthumous Bijbel der Nature."