Highlights•Mosquitoes, often seen as disease vectors, can act as pollinators, influencing
plant reproduction.•Mosquitoes use a multisensory approach to find floral nectar, with …

Background Olfaction plays an important role in the selection and assessment of oviposition
sites by mosquitoes. Volatile organic compounds (VOCs) associated with potential breeding …

Malaria poses a global threat to human health, with millions of cases and thousands of
deaths each year, mainly affecting developing countries in tropical and subtropical regions …

The exploration of the chemical ecology of oviposition behaviour in mosquitoes provides the
means to describe the role of volatile organic compounds used by gravid mosquitoes to …

Aedes albopictus is an important vector of arboviruses and prefers small containers of
stagnant water as oviposition sites. One of the mechanisms mosquitoes use to search for …

Background Aedes albopictus is a major arbovirus vector with small stagnant water
containers being its oviposition sites. Mosquitoes search for these sites based on their …

Feeding on plant-derived sugars is an essential component of mosquito biology, affecting
key aspects of their lives such as survival, metabolism, and reproduction. Among …

The aim of this study was to reveal differences in the volatile organic compounds (VOCs) of
royal jellies (RJs) produced by honey bee (Apis mellifera L.) colonies fed with 3 different …

Chironomid nonbiting midges are common in many waterbodies, occurring at high densities
in sediment and also when flying adults emerge. Although important for food webs and …

In recent work, it was shown that the graminoid plants Cynodon dactylon (Poaceae),
Cyperus exaltatus (Cyperaceae), and Panicum repens (Poaceae) have an ovipositional …