The Biology of Mosquitoes ─ Sensory Reception and Behaviour

Notorious nuisances and major transmitters of disease, mosquitoes are also important experimental animals. This book provides detailed descriptions of the functioning of mosquito sense organs and of the behavioral patterns that enable mosquitoes to survive in a variety of habitats and to find and attack their vertebrate hosts. Mosquitoes have been intensively studied, both in both laboratory and field, and this integrated review of their sensory mechanisms and behavior is an important advance in entomology and in medical biology.