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Mosquito-proof fabric blocks bites without sacrificing comfort

Cool and comfortable mosquito-proof clothing could become available thanks to fabrics with special knits that the insects cannot penetrate

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Your body wash may make you more attractive to mosquitoes

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Life

Male mosquitoes may hang around humans to pick up females

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Aedes aegypti mosquito

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Many mosquitoes are now insecticide-resistant in Vietnam and Cambodia

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The biotechnology firm Oxitec has released boxes throughout Brazil that contain genetically-modified male mosquitoes of the species Aedes aegypti

Environment

Genetically modified mosquitoes cut the insect's number by 96 per cent

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A female Aedes aegypti mosquito may be attracted to people with more carboxylic acids in their sweat

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Acids in our body odour make some people more attractive to mosquitoes

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Mosquito close up

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Mosquitoes have more ways to smell us than we thought

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How kids are winning the fight against dengue fever in a Rio favela

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How kids are winning the fight against dengue fever in a Rio favela

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Swatted dead mosquito

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AI learns how to recognise the species of splatted mosquitoes

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Roughly one dozen mosquitoes rest upon a white piece of fabric

Technology

The US military is making uniforms with built-in bug spray

Mosquito-proof fabrics are being tested by the US military in an effort to make uniforms that protect against malaria and other diseases

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Nearly a third of bites by malaria-carrying mosquitoes are in the day

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Australia’s Japanese encephalitis outbreak blamed on climate change

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Mosquitoes learn to avoid pesticides after just one non-lethal dose

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Technology

Robotic fish scares invasive species so badly that it cannot breed

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