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The Hostest with the Mostest

You're sitting in your back yard or at a park and a mosquito bites you. You're the host whether you...

Tara Thiemann is researching bloodfeeding patterns of Culex mosquitoes. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Tara Thiemann is researching bloodfeeding patterns of Culex mosquitoes. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Tara Thiemann working in the lab. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Tara Thiemann working in the lab. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Posted on Tuesday, May 22, 2012 at 9:50 PM

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Author: Kathy Keatley Garvey

Tags: Culex mosquitoes (1), Tara Thiemann (4), William Reisen (5)

Mosquito Heaven

Chemical ecologist Zain Syed of the Walter Leal lab, University of California, Davis, knows just...

Zain Syed

ZAIN SYED, chemical ecologist at UC Davis, holds a bag of 2000 Culex mosquitoes he trapped between Davis and West Sacramento. He is using them for his research. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Close-Up

CLOSE-UP photo of a mesh bag of 2000 Culex mosquitoes shows them drawn to his hand below. He trapped the 2000 all in one night at the Yolo Causeway and has trapped as many as 3000 there in a single night. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Posted on Wednesday, July 29, 2009 at 6:21 PM

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Author: Kathy Keatley Garvey

Tags: Culex (0), mosquitoes (0), rice fields (0), Walter Leal (0), Yolo basin (0), Zain Syed (0)