Mosquitoes

There is an interesting paper on Mosquitoes from Raji et. al. (“Aedes aegypti Mosquitoes Detect Acidic Volatiles Found in Human Odor Using the IR8a Pathway”, doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2019.02.045). It deals with how mosquitoes track their human targets. They identify three ranges - at furthest they track by CO2, in mid-range by IR and at closest they zoom in on particular VOCs.

I’m working on project KIRAS now for some time, and we essentially also need to track humans. It seems our machine learning algorithm has a similar approach (although we do not use IR). But CO2 is more dominant in large containers, while in smaller other compounds play greater role.