Female mosquitoes found to regulate their own population density at breeding sites using communal cues
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Female mosquitoes found to regulate their own population density at breeding sites using communal cues

When female mosquitoes feed‚ they don't seem to mind a crowd because lots of carbon dioxide usually means there's food. They were thought to be more solitary‚ however‚ when laying eggs. New research has revealed quite the opposite for the deadly Aedes aegypti.