Female Aedes aegypti commonly lay eggs on the inner walls of artificial containers. When the containers fill with water, mosquito larvae hatch from the eggs. After developing through four larval ...

the Aedes mosquito, for example, generally lays 100 eggs at a time. The water level must rise, as a result of rainfall or other means, to cover the eggs before the larva can hatch. The larvae feed on ...

Environmental management approaches involve eliminating the container habitats in which Aedes aegypti lay their eggs. Chemical control involves the use of insecticides to kill immature or adult ...

Aedes aegypti mosquitoes are known to bite humans during the day and their most common breeding grounds are man made containers. It's bite can cause diseases like dengue. Female mosquitoes, like ...

Kelly Bennett, post-doctoral fellow, and Jose Loaiza, principal investigator, sample mosquito larvae from used tires. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news ...

Concerns over West Nile virus, also carried by the tiny aedes aegypti mosquito that has ... bacterial products can be used to ...

The two city corporations of Dhaka have been implementing a raft of programmes to control dengue, but Aedes mosquito larvae are still being found in daily inspections. Dhaka North City Corporation ...

Entomologist GM Saifur Rahman echoed these concerns, stating that the current pattern of rainfall is highly conducive to mosquito breeding and will not wash away Aedes larvae or eggs. Without ...

Aedes aegypti has now been identified throughout Southern California, including in San Diego, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino, Ventura and Imperial counties; as well as in Sacramento ...

Such rain will not wash out Aedes larvae or eggs. If the authorities do not take necessary measures now, dengue cases in the most vulnerable places will increase further, Saifur said. "The ...

Additionally, aedes larvae and mosquitoes were collected and sent to the state's Department of Entomology, the release said. Besides these measures, 104 houses near the court were visited by ...

which measures the percentage of inspected premises tested positive for Aedes larvae or pupae, has dropped from about 50 per cent in the 1960s to less than 5 per cent in the late 1970s ...