Mumbai: Gangster Ejaz Lakdawala brought a plastic bottle filled with dead mosquitoes to a court here to highlight the menace of these flying insects faced in a jail where he is lodged and sought a net, but his plea was rejected. Lakdawala’s application was turned down by the sessions court on Thursday. Lakdawala, a former […]
Karimnagar: BC Welfare and Civil Supplies Minister, Gangula Kamalakar informed that 100 special teams have been constituted to educate the people about observing dry day on every Friday and Sunday to check the spread of mosquitoes. 100 special teams comprising five members each visit each and every locality in the town to ensure that the […]
Hyderabad: The Police in southeastern China caught a burglar by using DNA testing technology. The DNA test was done on two blood stains of mosquitoes, which were killed by the burglar. According to the South China Morning Post, On June 11, in Fuzhou, Fujian province, southeastern China, a thief broke into a residential compound late […]
New Delhi: Male mosquitoes beat their wings faster when swarming at sunset to better detect females and increase their chance of reproducing, finds a novel study led by UCL scientists. Published in Science Advances, the findings provide a vital new insight into how mosquitoes, driven by their internal circadian clock, combine changes in wing beats […]
Hyderabad: Intensifying the fight against mosquitoes and ensuring efficient fogging in the city, the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) has adopted the latest and innovative technologies. On a pilot basis, the civic body has installed smart trackers on vehicle-mounted fogging machines (VMFs) and also portable fogging machines (PFMs) to monitor the movement of these machines. […]
Canberra: A landmark Australian trial has found that a bacteria can be used to wipe out mosquitoes carrying dengue. In a study published on Tuesday, a team including researchers from the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO) found that bacteria can successfully sterilize the disease-carrying Aedes aegypti mosquito. Over the course of 20 weeks […]
