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• Discovery of new prehistoric mosquitoes reveal these blood-suckers have changed little in 46 million years

  In paleontology / 7 January 2013 / 1 comment

  

  Found in well preserved shale deposits the fossils are so detailed that scientists were able to determine they represent two previously unknown species.

   

• As robins disperse, West Nile mosquitoes switch diet to humans: Q&A with Smithsonian ornithologist Peter Marra

  In conservation biology, Q & A, Research Topics, zoology / 14 September 2012 / 0 comments

  

  A rising spike in West Nile virus is taking health officials across the country by surprise as this year more than 2,600 people in 45 states and the District of Columbia, have been stricken with severe symptoms of this mosquito-transmitted disease.