mosquito
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Smit means smiling and his last name means mosquito, Arora said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
The technology emerged from research focused on making military uniforms more resistant to mosquito bites and improving comfort for soldiers wearing body armor.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 1, 2026
Only when they reviewed the images did the Grammatico twins realise they had captured a mosquito resting on the head of a fer-de-lance viper.
From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2026
County’s positive mosquito samples were 10 times higher this year than last and nationally, human cases were at a 20-year high for that point in the season.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2026
The pain was far worse than anything he’d felt before—it made the broken thumb feel like a mosquito bite in comparison.
From "Pax" by Sara Pennypacker
Meanwhile in Florida, mosquitoes are reportedly causing the largest dengue fever outbreak in decades.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026
He also accused McConnell staff of attracting mosquitoes to Mr. McConnell’s home to attack people staked outside.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026
“Their lifespan is determined by humidity, so if you have humidity, the infected mosquitoes will live longer and infect more people.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026
Among the most common genetic traces in Neanderthal tartar were remains from Diptera, the insect group that includes flies and mosquitoes.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 27, 2026
It would have been another of life’s perfect moments except for the mosquitoes and chiggers and whatever was crawling off J.W. and onto us.
From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck
Those around him fell sick, exposed to relentless mosquitos.
From Barron's ● Jul. 7, 2026
Fighting off mosquitos, she uses her hijab to cover her one-month-old baby.
From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2024
Everything you need to know to protect yourself from mosquitos while hiking and camping in Southern California.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 17, 2024
Florida, Texas and other temperate — but not tropical — Southern states were previously too cold for these mosquitos to thrive.
From Salon ● May 23, 2024
In die end, right before dawn a kind of cold snap came down—something else new, this cold snap—and the mosquitos settled back into the damp grass and under the leaves and he could sleep.
From "Hatchet" by Gary Paulsen
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