"The combination of a visual target and CO2 emission that Zuo presents as a warm-blooded organism, however, seemed to whip the mosquitoes into a frenzied orbit."
"With nothing to attack, mosquitos simply wander aimlessly, flittering about at random. A purely visual target, like a styrofoam ball on a stick, causes a fly-by."
"The result of these torture trials, Hu writes, is data from 20 million individual skeeter flights, or 'more mosquito flight data than had previously been measured in human history.'"
A three-year study at Georgia Tech investigated how mosquitoes choose their prey, with student Chris Zuo serving as human bait. The research, led by professor David Hu, involved Zuo enduring numerous mosquito bites while data was collected on mosquito flight patterns. The study produced over 20 million flight data points, revealing that mosquitoes alter their behavior based on the type of target present. Visual targets alone lead to random wandering, while the combination of visual cues and CO2 emissions from warm-blooded targets incites more aggressive mosquito behavior.
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