(n.) Any one of various species of gnats of the genus Culex and allied genera. The females have a proboscis containing, within the sheathlike labium, six fine, sharp, needlelike organs with which they puncture the skin of man and animals to suck the blood. These bites, when numerous, cause, in many persons, considerable irritation and swelling, with some pain. The larvae and pupae, called wigglers, are aquatic.
Example Sentences:
(1) The results indicate that the conditions which inhibit the initiation of development are present in the Malpighian tubules and not in the midgut of the refractory mosquitoes.
(2) The mosquitoes coming to bite in bedrooms were monitored with light traps set beside untreated bednets.
(3) The isolates of B. sphaericus were more effective (2-3X) against both mosquito species than Bactimos.
(4) Poor workplace health and safety, inadequate toilet facilities and dangerous fumes from mosquito fogging that led to one asylum seeker with asthma collapsing were all raised as concerns by Kilburn, although he stressed that he believed G4S management and expatriate G4S staff acted appropriately.
(5) Human activity not only increases risk, but influences control by killing mosquito larvae, killing adult mosquitos or preventing mosquitos from feeding.
(6) However, mosquitoes infected with more than 4 larvae became more active than uninfected mosquitoes 8 days after infection.
(7) Mosquito infection occurred primarily around dusk, the same period during which A. robustus and E. serrulatus were most abundant near the surface of the pond.
(8) This study examines the state of mosquito-borne lymphatic filariasis in Madras, Tamil Nadu, in southern India during the 1970s and into the 1980s.
(9) Repellent effect of the Mannich bases (methoxyphenol derivatives) on Aedes aegypti mosquitoes and Xenopsylla cheopis fleas was revealed under laboratory and field conditions.
(10) Antibody capable of interfering with infection of mosquitoes was shown to persist for 4 months after parasitaemia disappeared.
(11) Thus, a primary factor regulating the production and release of CS protein by sporozoites is their contact with soluble CS protein within the mosquito.
(12) In many cases, virus growth was more severely impaired in mosquito cells than in chicken cells, but the opposite phenotype was also seen, in which the mutant grew as well as or better than the wild type in mosquito cells but more poorly in chicken cells.
(13) Studies were undertaken to develop an amplified ELISA for the rapid detection of WEE virus from mosquitoes.
(14) Immature mosquito populations were reduced by mats of Azolla microphylla covering more than 80% of the water surface.
(15) Nevertheless, moonlight does not seem to have any effect on the composition of adult mosquito population since the difference in the parous rate of females collected during full moon and during no moon was not significant (P greater than 0.05).
(16) In order to determine population dynamics of Anopheles sinensis, a survey based on average number of female mosquitoes per trap-night was carried out during the period of 5 years from 1987 to 1991.
(17) Six-day-old adult Toxorhynchites amboinensis mosquitoes were inoculated with purified TSWV.
(18) Sera from 299 fishermen 16 to 80 years old, residents in Cananeia and Iguape counties, southern cost of São Paulo State, Brazil, were studied in order to identify a possible association between the prevalence of specific antibodies to the hepatitis B virus (HBV) and exposure to haematophagus mosquitoes evaluated by the prevalence of arbovirus antibodies.
(19) This situation may have occurred due to lack of awareness among the public, poor surveillance by the National Malaria Program or higher density of the vector mosquitos in the area.
(20) Four formulations of an insect growth regulator, Bay Sir 8514 (a benzoylurea compound), were tested against 2 species of riceland mosquito larvae, Anopheles quadrimaculatus and Psorophora columbiae.
Wiggler
Definition:
(n.) The young, either larva or pupa, of the mosquito; -- called also wiggletail.
Example Sentences:
(1) When the temperature dropped to 16 degrees C and below in the last ten days of Oct., the wigglers began their diapause period.
(2) Data collection time was 3 s using the high-intensity white X-radiation generated on the wiggler magnet of the Daresbury Synchrotron Radiation Source (SRS), but data acquisition in the millisecond-submillisecond range is possible.
(3) By using ultra-high-flux synchrotron x-radiation from a wiggler source, good Laue diffraction data have been obtained from protein microcrystals of size 30 X 35 X 10 microns3, mounted wet in glass capillaries.
(4) The x-ray absorption near edge structure (XANES) spectra of hemoglobin and myoglobin have been measured at the wiggler beam line of the Frascati Synchrotron Radiation Facility.
(5) Experiments were performed using wiggler synchrotron radiation.
(6) Softer fibreglass masks produced less contamination when moved by facial muscles, and are more suitable for mask wigglers.
(7) The X-ray absorption near edge structure (XANES) spectra of the human adult and foetal hemoglobin, of the isolated alpha and beta chains, in the oxygenated forms, and of the oxymyoglobin and carp oxyhemoglobin have been measured at the wiggler beam line of the Frascati Synchrotron radiation facility.
(8) Usually, this happens after the pinkie-wiggler has been intimate with the pinkie-wigglee and their, ahem, coupling ended badly.
(9) High signal-to-noise XANES spectra were measured at the Frascati "wiggler" synchrotron radiation facility.
(10) We have collected Laue diffraction data from crystals of tomato bushy stunt virus using the full white X-ray spectrum from the wiggler magnet of the Synchrotron Radiation Source at Daresbury, U.K. A single 24 second exposure of a crystal soaked in EDTA yielded a data set that was 90% complete between 6 and 3.5 A resolution.