Deadly genetically modified mosquitoes that glow fluorescent red ... Only female mosquitoes bite and drink blood.Credit: That’s why Oxitec, which grew out of Oxford University, has developed ...

To this day, insects smaller than a child’s thumbnail remain the most dangerous ... the mosquitoes that are the most anthropophagous, which is an elegant way of saying they prefer human blood.

An animal whose blood is spiced with some such deadly substance should make an unattractive meal for lice, ticks or mosquitoes. The most successful experiments were with human body lice ...