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characteristics
- In mosquito: Aedes mosquitoes
  A. aegypti, the important carrier of the virus responsible for yellow fever, has white bands on its legs and spots on its abdomen and thorax. This domestic species breeds in almost any kind of container, from flower pots to discarded car-tire casings. The eastern salt…
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effect of DEET
- In chemoreception: Altering pest behaviour
  including the mosquito Aedes aegypti, a carrier of yellow fever and other infectious viruses, and Rhodnius prolixus, a member of the assassin bug family that is known to transmit Chagas’ disease, can become insensitive to the chemical. A. aegypti was found to develop insensitivity within three hours of…
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thermoreception and behaviour
- In thermoreception: Thermoreception in invertebrates
  Similarly, the mosquito Aedes aegypti, which can transmit yellow fever and dengue to humans, flies readily to a warm, odourless, inanimate surface as if it were that of a warm-blooded animal. These mosquitoes are sensitive to very subtle changes in air temperature, sometimes responding to thermal changes as…
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disease transmission

In Aedes: Role in disease transmission
…spread of Aedes mosquitoes, especially A. aegypti and A. albopictus, which are native to Africa and Asia, is suspected of facilitating the uptake and transmission of pathogens by endemic Aedes species. Infected humans may also play a role. For example, A. polynesiensis is a suspected vector of Zika virus in…
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chikungunya fever
- In chikungunya virus
  …of which are the mosquitoes Aedes aegypti and A. albopictus. The original vector of the virus was A. aegypti, which is native to Africa and India. However, genetic mutations enabled viral adaptation to A. albopictus, which is native to Asia. This mosquito is considered an invasive species, and factors involving…
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- In chikungunya fever: Transmission and symptoms
  …to Africa and India, where Aedes aegypti, the original mosquito vector described for chikungunya virus, thrived. However, viral mutation, climate change, and human travel and migration have caused shifts in the geographic occurrence of chikungunya fever. Mutations in the virus have enabled it to infect a second vector, Aedes albopictus,…
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dengue fever
- In dengue: Viral transmission
  …areas is the yellow-fever mosquito, Aedes aegypti. The Asian tiger mosquito, A. albopictus, is another prominent carrier of the virus. A mosquito becomes infected only if it bites an infected individual (humans and perhaps also certain species of monkey) during the first three days of the victim’s illness. It then…
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- In Aedes: Role in disease transmission
  For example, although A. aegypti is the principal vector of dengue viruses in Africa and the Americas, A. albopictus can also transmit the disease to humans in those regions. In French Polynesia, A. polynesiensis serves as an endemic dengue vector. Dengue outbreaks have also been attributed to
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yellow fever
- In yellow fever: History
  …a mosquito now known as Aedes aegypti. In his investigation of Finlay’s theory, U.S. Army pathologist and bacteriologist Major Walter Reed demonstrated in 1900 the transmission of yellow fever from one human to another through the bite of A. aegypti. Reed was further able to show that mosquitoes were the…
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Zika virus
- In Zika virus
  The principal vectors, A. aegypti and A. albopictus, are native to Africa and Asia, respectively. However, both species have spread from those regions to distant areas, including the South Pacific and the Americas. In addition, Zika virus may be readily taken up and transmitted by endemic Aedes species;…
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work of

Lazear
- In Jesse William Lazear
  …fever is transmitted by a mosquito, later known as Aëdes aegypti.
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Reed
- In Walter Reed
  …mosquito, Stegomyia fasciata (later renamed Aedes aegypti), and that the same result could be obtained by injecting into a volunteer blood drawn from a patient suffering from yellow fever. Reed found no evidence that yellow fever could be conveyed by fomites, and he showed that a house became infected only…
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