{"id":87821,"date":"2019-02-16T16:22:21","date_gmt":"2019-02-17T00:22:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/human-diet-drugs-kill-mosquitoes-appetite-too"},"modified":"2019-02-16T16:22:21","modified_gmt":"2019-02-17T00:22:21","slug":"human-diet-drugs-kill-mosquitoes-appetite-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/human-diet-drugs-kill-mosquitoes-appetite-too","title":{"rendered":"Human Diet Drugs Kill Mosquitoes\u2019 Appetite Too"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/human-diet-drugs-kill-mosquitoes-appetite-too.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When researchers fed mosquitoes a drug used to treat people for obesity, the insects were less interested in hunting for their next human meal ticket. Karen Hopkin reports.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/podcast\/episode\/desalination-could-cause-ecological-sea-change\/#transcripts-body\" class=\"\" aria-label=\"Desalination Could Cause Ecological Sea Change transcript\">Full Transcript<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Believe it or not, mosquitoes don\u2019t bite out of spite. Female mosquitoes of the species <em>Aedes aegypti<\/em> need the nutrients present in your plasma to ensure the proper development of their eggs. And though their thirst may seem unquenchable, the ladies actually take time to savor your blood once they\u2019ve sipped their fill.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/podcast\/episode\/human-diet-drugs-kill-mosquitoes-appetite-too\/\">https:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/podcast\/episode\/human-die...etite-too\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When researchers fed mosquitoes a drug used to treat people for obesity, the insects were less interested in hunting for their next human meal ticket. Karen Hopkin reports. Full Transcript Believe it or not, mosquitoes don\u2019t bite out of spite. Female mosquitoes of the species Aedes aegypti need the nutrients present in your plasma to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87821\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}