mosquito, research, scent

Here’s How You Can Teach Mosquitoes to Avoid Your Scent

Most of us surely don’t think of mosquitoes as being especially adept at learning. But that may not be the case. In a paper published on January 25 in Current Biology, University of Washington researchers report that they can, in fact, learn to associate a particular odor with an unpleasant mechanical shock akin to being swatted. As a ...

Troy Oakes

A mosquito biting an arm.