Entomology Today, 4 April 2025

Melissa Mayer talks with Eva Herreros-Moya about her latest paper

"For many, mosquitoes and blood are inextricable. But most of the time-and all the time for male mosquitoes-these insects slide their piercing-sucking mouthparts into a flower rather than a vein, drawing up nectar as their primary food source.

But do mosquitoes have nectar preferences-and how do those predilections and the availability of nectar in the landscape affect the usefulness of baits like attractive targeted sugar baits (ATSBs)?"

Full post here.

Paper: Eva Herreros-Moya, Marianne Sinka, Angela F Harris, Julian Entwistle, Andrew C Martin, Kathy J Willis, The food of life: which nectar do mosquitoes feed on?-An evidence-based meta-analysis, Environmental Entomology, 2025;, nvaf009, https://doi.org/10.1093/ee/nvaf009.