Just when I think I’ve seen everything…I discover there is an app for your iPhone that claims to repel mosquitoes with high frequency sound:
“Have you ever been camping and you were worried about those mosquitos [sic] outside near your camp light? Wondering how soon it will be before they attack you in your sleep? Well, [...]
DEET is the gold standard for insect repellent. I’ve covered it fairly extensively at the Bug Blog–it’s the best thing we have to prevent a wide spectrum of insects from biting and transmitting an even wider spectrum of diseases.
So…Sigh.
Some new DEET research was published this month, and the media…well, has done a crappy job of [...]
This week the Ecological Society of America is having their annual meeting, and several papers of entomological interest have been presented. One found that increased pollution in urban streams leads to increased mosquito populations:
“Luis Fernando Chaves, a post-doctoral researcher at Emory University, and his team discovered mosquitoes in abundance in a sewage-contaminated stream in Atlanta, [...]
In case you missed it on my Twitter stream..a tribute to Michael Jackson. In Alaska. With Skeeters.
Field Biologists ROCK. And I told you I was dressed accurately!!
Sociological Images caught something very interesting—packaging the same mosquito repellent product in two different ways:
“the mostly blue package includes a male figure fishing and logos for hunting, camping, and fishing. ….the mostly orange package includes a female figure, perhaps on a walk.”
In addition to the colors, there are completely different fonts and images on each [...]
And now…back to World Malaria Day [Week] here at the Bug Blog. This has to be one of the most charming rap songs ever–a group of Atlanta kids do a rap song for Nothing but Nets.
I am very curious about the curriculum in which these students were introduced to malaria and [...]
Welcome to the second day of World Malaria Day [week] at the Bug Blog! I’ve talked several times about the way in which different mosquitoes respond differently to pesticides for malarial control, but here’s a new twist.
In a recent study to compare different species of mosquito in their ability to be a malarial vector, there [...]
So much new and interesting malaria research has been coming out lately, I thought I’d post some as we approach World Malaria Day. Here’s an assortment of research that shows how knowledge of basic mosquito biology and ecology can help control malaria.
First, a neat study that combines entomology and hydrogeology in Niger:
“efforts to control environmental [...]
Just a little reminder that WMD is April 25th, 2009.
I’ll be covering some new and cool malaria research over the next week or two as we count up to World Malaria Day. As a reminder, you can donate to Nothing But Nets online anytime.
Here’s a fascinating new bit of research that creatively gets mosquitoes to [...]
Hmm. I am extremely skeptical about the success of this project. From WSJ:
A quarter-century ago, American rocket scientists proposed the “Star Wars” defense system to knock Soviet missiles from the skies with laser beams. Some of the same scientists are now aiming their lasers at another airborne threat: the mosquito.
In a lab in this Seattle [...]
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