Lukas VFN 🇪🇺Australian #mosquito species found to target #frogs' noses https://phys.org/news/2023-11-australian-mosquito-species-frogs-noses.html
A little on the nose: A mosquito targets the nostrils of tree frogs for a blood meal https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/eth.13424
"It was upon returning to their lab and laying out the photographs that they noticed something unique—any mosquito feeding on a #frog's blood was always atop its nose. This spot, they noted, seemed precarious, as #mosquitos are part of the frog diet."
Australian mosquito species found to target frogs' noses
A pair of environmental and life scientists, one with the University of Newcastle, in Australia, the other the German Center for Integrative Biodiversity Research, has found that one species of mosquito native to Australia targets only the noses of frogs for feeding. In their paper published in the journal Ethology, John Gould and Jose Valdez describe their three-year study of frogs and Mimomyia elegans, a species of mosquito native to Australia.