"With fewer natural options available, mosquitoes are forced to seek new, alternative blood sources," said co-author Sergio ...

Once mosquitoes acquire a new food source, they tend to develop a preference for that particular blood—and humans are one ...

Deforestation has reduced the plants and animals on which mosquitoes feed.

A Brazilian study finds mosquitoes in fragmented Atlantic Forest habitats are feeding more on humans as biodiversity declines ...

As deforestation shrinks Brazil’s Atlantic Forest, mosquitoes that once fed on many animal species are increasingly turning to human blood.

Human expansion in the Amazon increases contact between cities and forests, raising the risk that diseases like yellow fever ...

Stretching along the Brazilian coastline, the Atlantic Forest is home to hundreds of species of birds, amphibians, reptiles, ...

In the rapidly disappearing Atlantic Forest, mosquitoes are adapting to a human-dominated landscape. Scientists found that ...

Mosquitoes transmit diseases like dengue, Zika, and malaria, making this shift a significant public health concern.

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A warm summer night, the hum of mosquitoes filling the air, and you, slathering on DEET, waving your arms like a windmill, and — if internet lore is to be believed — chugging vitamin B1 in the hopes ...