Mosquitoes Are Adapting to Evade Pesticides, New Study Shows
New research has found that mosquitoes can learn to evade pesticides after being exposed once. Here's what you need to know.
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New research has found that mosquitoes can learn to evade pesticides after being exposed once. Here's what you need to know.
Mosquitos learned to avoid pesticides after a single non-lethal exposure, a study published Thursday in Nature found.
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Joao Paulo Burini/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Mosquitoes may be smarter than we think, and that could make getting rid of them and the diseases they carry even more difficult, according to new research. Scientists who studied two species of mosquitoes that spread diseases such as dengue, Zika and West Nile fever -- Aedes aegypti and Culex quinquefasciatus -- found that the females learned to avoid pesticides after a single non-lethal exposure, a study published Thursday in Nature found. The researchers exposed the female mosquitoes to non-lethal doses of common anti-mosquito pesticides and found...