Mathematicians model the menace of mosquitoes

For starters, a mosquito can transmit pathogens at the probing stage, which happens before it starts feeding. "It kind of ...
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Engineered fungus is mosquito death trap

Metarhizium robertsii, a pathogenetic soil-dwelling fungus, infects a variety of insects through spores that eventually kill them. Scientists have known that the fungus can spread when a healthy bug ...