Mosquito Quotations

Inevitably, malaria parasites developed resistance to commonly used drugs, and mosquito vectors became insecticide-resistant.

I was nicknamed Skeeter in Little League because I was small and fast, like a mosquito flying across the outfield.

For the first time, we have the genetic sequences of all three of the players in the global malaria debacle: the parasite, the anopheles mosquito and the human. It's a very important milestone.

Mosquito control is a joke. Those spray trucks drive around town to make you feel like they're doing something for you.

Mosquitoes are most prevalent in the late afternoon, so if you are going out during this time try to wear long sleeves and pants as well as mosquito repellent,

When you consider that Mosquito Creek alone paid out over $21,000 in prize money for the 2005 hunt last February, a successful hunter, with one coyote and having entered all three hunts, could really cash in big time.

If you are careful about what you put in your mouth, and if you are careful about using mosquito repellant, you can dramatically reduce the risk of the most common illnesses.

Fortunately, as the weather turns colder, the threat for infection from mosquitoes will subside. Mosquito activity lessens greatly after the first hard frost.

I don't think people should be unduly alarmed, ... They should try to keep the mosquito population down in their own back yard ... but I don't think they should lose sleep over it or lock themselves in the house because they're afraid to go out and expose themselves to mosquitoes.

If we are going to do it, we have to do it immediately, ... It is already late in the season to be doing any mosquito spraying.

Imagine trying to see a mosquito disappearing behind a 400-Watt streetlamp, not at the next street corner or a few blocks away, but 1,000 kilometers away. That's equivalent to what we're trying to do to detect the planet's eclipse in the HD 209458 system.

It is becoming hard to sleep at night due to mosquito bites. Even the mosquito nets or coils can stop them. The inactive role of the DCC makes it look like they are actually safeguarding the mosquito population.

I think I had somewhere around 24 spots. I thought something like a mosquito had gotten into the house and bit me.

It is a disease that can spread to humans, ... It's rare, but it does happen. The main way hunters would be exposed to it is the same way anyone else would, and that's through mosquito bites.

With the Food and Drug Administration we are prepared to manage any food- or water-borne disease. Over the next days to weeks we could see the emergence of mosquito populations and West Nile virus ,

We really want to get public involvement in helping us reduce mosquito populations in and around the area.

We have a real serious problem facing us in America. It's nothing to get real worried about, just be careful. If you are out, make sure you put some mosquito repellent on,

The fact that the parasite manipulates the mosquito to this extent can help to explain the incredibly intense transmission of malaria.

With abundant rain and warmer temperatures, mosquito populations could be large.

The outbreak is under control and the influx of patients to hospitals has come down. Fogging of insecticide in affected areas has started. People have been advised to sleep under mosquito nets.

What they have in common is living in an area that exposed them to at least one infected mosquito that transmits the disease,

We're sleeping in a hammock with tubes of mosquito netting. It's too hot, too wet and too full of crawly things to sleep on the ground.

We had some freezes, but not the prolonged kind of freezing that would help with mosquito problems this spring.

a man thinks he amounts to a great deal but to a flea or a mosquito a human being is merely something good to eat

Although there has been very little rain so far this winter, mosquito prevention remains the key to preventing West Nile virus. By controlling mosquitoes now, we can reduce their populations in spring and summer.

Probably the saddest thing you'll ever see is a mosquito sucking on a mummy. Forget it, little friend.

Even a mosquito doesn't get a pat on the back until he's well into his work.

We have seen increased mosquito activity in parts of the Bronx, Queens, Brooklyn and Staten Island,

A few wanted to know if we've changed our refund policy, but we haven't. You see a few cases of Eastern equine encephalitis every year. The mosquito population is way down this year.

I've got a feeling that the usefulness of the bird surveillance program may have passed. We always relied on mosquito data anyway.

If the water is turbulent, the mosquito larvae won't make it to the top to suck in air,

About 99 percent of the black flies that fly around your face are females. They act like the mosquito in that they require a blood meal.

It's very small. It's like a mosquito bite, is the way it was described. Mo said he felt great, no pain, no fatigue, no nothing. He's fine to play, but I might have given him tonight off anyway against (Matt) Morris .

In terms of how did the donor acquire this West Nile virus infection, the two possibilities are a mosquito bite before the time that the person was injured in the automobile accident, or received a blood product immediately after being injured, ... I think we have to aggressively pursue the possibility that a blood product is responsible for this.

It was pretty clear last year there wasn't any sort of momentum to move forward. Mosquito control districts are definitely perceived by people who do this for a living as beneficial, but they're political hot potatoes.

A group of scientists wanted to find the most effective mosquito repellents. So they tested 10 different substances, including campout standbys like DEET, as well as a random choice: Victoria's Secret perfume Bombshell. Turns out the perfume is almost as good as DEET.

The funds will be used to purchase tents, blankets, cooking utensils, mosquito nets, temporary shelter materials, hygiene articles, water purification tablets and medicines.

This is mosquito country. There is the risk of explosive breeding of mosquitoes, as well as rats and rodents.

It's not so much how busy you are, but why you are busy. The bee is praised. The mosquito is swatted.

There isn't one celebrity I've worked with who doesn't have major doubts about what impact they are having. I am glad when they question the impact, because it shows they are based firmly in the reality that peacemaking isn't the same as changing a streetlight or distributing mosquito nets.

We are very concerned about the mosquitoes. We do have crews that are monitoring. We are monitoring large bodies of water and as the water recedes, we will be treating to keep the mosquito numbers down.

The more standing water you have, the greater the probability for mosquito populations to develop.

However, it's better than sitting there watching this tiny mosquito grow larger on your arm. I don't know that he gains much by pulling out now. But he definitely stops hemorrhaging of public opinion against this.

Before August or July, it's another situation. But on the other hand, my family is avoiding mosquito bites.

The best blood will sometimes get into a fool or a mosquito