Blood-sucking mosquitoes keep their cool
Thursday, December 15, 2011 - 13:30
in Biology & Nature
No one likes being bitten by whining mosquitoes, but have you ever considered what the experience is like for them as their cold-blooded bodies fill with our warm blood? Now researchers reporting online on December 15 in Current Biology have uncovered the mosquitoes' secret to avoiding heat stress: they give up cooling droplets of their hard-won meals.