🦟🛑 We've known for a long time that female #mosquitoes stop hunting once they've had their fill of blood, but where does that "off switch" live? New #research explains that it isn't in the #brain – it's in special cells in the mosquito's rectum.

👉 https://www.sciencenews.org/article/mosquitoes-butts-full-stop-biting

#science #neuroscience #biology #health #nature #insects #evolution