21 Sep
Brewing Up Double-Edged Delicacies for Mosquitoes
On what food do mosquitoes live? Orgiastic gouts of human blood that distend their abdomens and render them almost unable to move – right? Well, actually, no.
To lay eggs, females do need blood for its iron and protein. But usually mosquitoes subsist on modest sips of nectar from flowers or from ripe or rotting fruit.
And that, according to scientists from Hebrew University in Jerusalem, is an Achilles heel or Achilles proboscis through which the pests can also be poisoned.
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