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Examples
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They're looking at ways to reduce egg production and curb the female mosquito's appetite for blood.
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Another friend of mine swears by rubbing dryer sheets on his exposed skin to repel mosquito's.
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So scientists came up with a more radical idea: conferring sterility by tweaking a mosquito's genetic make-up.
Scientists Tweak Bugs to Zap Disease Gautam Naik 2011
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They're looking at ways to reduce egg production and curb the female mosquito's appetite for blood.
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Another friend of mine swears by rubbing dryer sheets on his exposed skin to repel mosquito's.
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I ask, trying to remember the high school math I would use to determine the mosquito's hypotenuse using a left shoulder, an elbow on the bar, and her hand on her knee as points A, B, C.
Smart Bar Judith Ossello 2011
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One may not, in those circumstances, be derailed by a mosquito's wing, but a swarm of Maine blackflies can be disconcerting.
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Stapleton said he had received hundreds of positive reports from police, councils and businesses, but conceded a test case might be the only way of establishing the mosquito's legality.
Teenager-repellent 'mosquito' must be banned, says Europe 2010
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The new needle has an inner diameter of around 25 microns and an external diameter of 60 microns, which is about the same size as a mosquito's mouthpart.
Boing Boing 2008
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On a fishing trip in the Maine woods one has the time and space, the solitude and quietude, to contemplate the world "as deliberately as Nature, and not be thrown off the track by every nutshell and mosquito's wing that falls on the rails."
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