Posts Tagged: Culex quinquefasciatus
The SWAT Team
Chemical ecologist Walter Leal, professor and former chair of the UC Davis Department of...
Walter Leal and Zain Syed
Culex Mosquito
Heaven-Scent
Whew, that stinks! If you've ever smelled a mosquito gravid trap, you know it's not heaven-scent....
Culex quinquefasciatus mosquito laying eggs. (Photo by Samuel Woo, UC Davis)
This container of "smelly" water is being used by UC Davis entomology graduate student Tara Thiemann for her gravid mosquito traps. Gravid traps attract blood-fed mosquitoes ready to lay their eggs. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
The Secret's Out
We know it works, but how? Just how does DEET work? Does it jam the senses of a mosquito? Does it...
Culex quinquefasciatus, the Southern house mosquito, finishes feeding on non-DEET treated skin. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
UC Davis researcher Zain Syed (right) sprays DEET on the arm of chemical ecologist Walter Leal. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)