"With fewer natural options available, mosquitoes are forced to seek new, alternative blood sources," said co-author Sergio ...

Deforestation has reduced the plants and animals on which mosquitoes feed. As forests shrink and wildlife disappears, mosquitoes are increasingly turning to people for their blood meals, a shift that ...

As deforestation shrinks Brazil’s Atlantic Forest, mosquitoes that once fed on many animal species are increasingly turning to human blood.

New Delhi, A study in Brazil's Atlantic Forest has found that ongoing biodiversity loss may be causing mosquitoes that once ...