Sentence examples for mosquito off from inspiring English sources

The truth is we don't know what the consequences of wiping an entire species of mosquito off the planet will be.

"Keeps the mosquitoes off," he said.

Of course, she knew the stories behind them: how a sensationally sexy picture of her at Lake Ediza in California, fully clothed but knees splayed apart, was mostly about exhaustion and trying to keep the mosquitoes off; or how her bowed head in "Nude" (1936), shown here, was turned away only because the sun from the white deck was dazzling her.

The pest, much like the mosquito, lives off the blood of people and animals and in the process transmits disease, in this case a parasite that causes sleeping sickness.

At zero feet his Mosquito bounced off a mound but he managed to hit the enemy aircraft which burst into flames, stalled and crashed near Aalborg.

This may not explain how the mosquitoes kill off future generations of aegypti, but at least it shows that the GM creations will drain no human blood.

The 80percentt goal contains a safety margin: research suggests that when more than 60percentt of a village's homes use insecticide-filled nets, mosquitoes die off instead of just biting unprotected neighbors.

Come fall, the adult mosquitoes die off, but the larvae live on through the winter in a state of suspended animation known as diapause the insect version of hibernation.

Even pet shop owners and animal importers have become involved, as investigators pursue the theory that the virus entered the United States in the blood of an imported bird that was then bitten by a mosquito that flew off to infect other birds.

That's the conclusion of a team of engineers and biologists at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, which used a combination of real-time video and sophisticated math to demonstrate that the light insect's rugged construction allows the mosquito to shrug off the onslaught of even the largest raindrop.

Mosquitoes are currently being engineered with "gene drives" that could render female offspring sterile and potentially wipe species of mosquitoes off the planet.