Sentence examples for mosquitoes that would from inspiring English sources

But he credits the permethrin-treated shirt for warding off swarms of mosquitoes that would otherwise bite through the thin cloth on his back as he wades into creeks.

A mosquito net is a simple piece of technology: it creates a protective barrier between sleeping humans and the disease-carrying mosquitoes that would otherwise feast on them during the night.

Collins and others also hope they will one day be able to create malaria-resistant mosquitoes that would replace wild ones.

Maintaining chickens, goats, or other animals in your home can, in some cases, divert bites by mosquitoes that would otherwise have been directed to a person.

Current malaria control efforts are hampered by the spread of insecticide and drug resistance, which has inspired research programs aimed at the development and eventual release of genetically altered mosquitoes that would be resistant to Plasmodium falciparum transmission.

One such idea in which much research is invested is the "construction" of "new mosquitoes" that would be unable to transmit malaria or other diseases [ 5, 6].

A mutation engineered into a mosquito that would block the parasite responsible for malaria, for instance, could be driven through a large population of mosquitoes within a year or two.

There have also been promising recent studies about a potential malaria vaccine and the use of gene-editing technologies on mosquitos that would keep them from transmitting the disease.

In fact, the bay was notorious for its swarms of mosquitos that would fly from the Colorado River delta, and documented by a late 19th-century rancher: A fairly strong easterly wind had been blowing for three days; on the evening of the third day, the mosquitos arrived, flying high, about fifty feet, and looking like a cloud of mist over Carancahua Bay.

P. falciparum infection was determined by enzyme linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) of circumsporozoite protein (CSP) (Burkot et al., 1984; Wirtz et al., 1987) from the head and thorax of mosquito specimens in an attempt to capture the parts of the mosquito that would indicate they were infective mosquitoes.

And just as the benzoquinones discourage virtually all insects from harassing the millipedes, so the transferred chemicals appear to protect capuchins against the mosquitoes that otherwise would descend on them during the rainy season in sopranic clouds of misery.