Without their keen sense of smell, mosquitoes wouldn’t get very far. They rely on this sense to find a host to bite and spots to lay eggs. And without that sense of smell, mosquitoes could not locate their dominant source of food: nectar from flowers. “Nectar is an important source of food for all […]
COLUMBUS, Ohio – Imagine a world in which mosquitoes choose blossoms over blood. Nice, right? There already exists a mosquito species called Wyeomyia smithii in which most of the bugs refuse blood meals in favor of sweet floral nectar. And new research is helping to explain the evolutionary genetics of the switch from blood sucker to flower […]
U.S. Attorney Karen L. Loeffler of the U.S. Justice Department announced on Wednesday that an Anchorage husband and wife, 41-year-old Arnold Flowers and his wife, 31-year-old Miranda May Flowers, were indicted by a Grand Jury on 14 counts of wire fraud and scheming to defraud. The Justice Department also announced the A. Flowers was also […]