Male mosquitoes more bloodthirsty than females

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Male mosquitoes sometimes suck, too

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Entomologist Jason Rasgon ’s lab at Penn State noticed some male mosquitoes would sometimes feed on blood through a thin artificial membrane when researchers dropped the humidity and took away their usual nectar meals.

Male Culex tarsalis and Aedes aegypti mosquitoes, which are normally disinterested in blood, will take blood meals when humidity is low.

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