An Interactive Annotated World Bibliography of Printed and Digital Works in the History of Medicine and the Life Sciences from Circa 2000 BCE to 2022 by Fielding H. Garrison (1870-1935), Leslie T. Morton (1907-2004), and Jeremy M. Norman (1945- ) Traditionally Known as “Garrison-Morton”

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REEVES, William C.

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Quantitative field studies on a carbon dioxide chemotropism of mosquitoes.

Am. J. Trop. Med. & Hygiene, 2, 325-331, 1953.

Reeves demonstrated that mosquitoes detect their prey by sensing the carbon dioxide that animals exhale. (It was later shown that some mosquitoes can detect their prey from more than 165 feet away.)

(Thanks to Juan Weiss for this reference and its interpretation.)



Subjects: BIOLOGY, INFECTIOUS DISEASE, ZOOLOGY › Arthropoda › Entomology