Rather than spraying neighborhoods with pesticides or dousing ourselves with chemical repellents to ward off mosquitoes, wouldn’t it be great if the insects simply didn’t like how humans tasted and ...

Researchers have taken an important first step in developing improved repellants to protect mankind from its deadliest insect parasite: the mosquito By mapping a specialized sensory organ that the ...

The sensory organ is the maxillary palp. It is one of three structures extending from the mosquito’s head that together provide it with its sense of smell and taste. The other two are the feathery ...

New insect repellents may work by stopping pesky mosquitoes and flies from sniffing out their prey, U.S. researchers reported Thursday. They found a single gene controls the sense of smell in fruit ...

A new study by Johns Hopkins researchers suggests that a specialized area of the mosquito brain mixes tastes with smells to create unique and preferred flavors. The findings advance the possibility, ...