CBS 8 NEWS - Heavy rains from tropical storm Hilary left plenty of flooding and standing water, and when combined with the sunny, warm weather, can make for prime mosquito-breeding conditions. “These mosquitoes breed in water sources that are oftentimes in backyards that can be relatively small water sources, so any pot or cup or...
THE PRESS-ENTERPRISE - Heavy rain has transformed normally dry fields and numerous backyards across the Inland Empire into soggy breeding grounds for mosquitoes. As a result, bug experts are bracing for what could be one of the region’s worst mosquito seasons in recent memory. When mosquitoes do emerge in a big way, their disruption to...
LAIST.COM - Springtime is about a month away, and summer will be here before we know it. In Los Angeles, both seasons invite people to enjoy the great outdoors and bask in the sun. Summertime brings those warm summer nights. Which bring bugs, and all kinds of other critters and wildlife. In the spring, you...
U.S. NEWS - "Though others have identified compounds that attract mosquitoes, many of them don't elicit a strong, rapid effect. This one does," said study co-author Ring Cardé, a professor of entomology at the University of California, Riverside. Skin odors appear to be the most important for mosquitoes when locating someone to bite, but other...
UC Riverside researchers have published a paper in Cell Reports that addresses an important question in the field of sensory receptor function, particularly for some odorant receptors that function as “heteromers” — receptors with more than one subunit: How do the different subunits of a receptor contribute to the detection of different ligands? Ligands are...
