Watch | Can mosquitoes taste human blood?

A video on the findings from a research conducted by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute in U.S.

October 23, 2020 01:31 pm | Updated 01:48 pm IST

Researchers at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute in the U.S. recently found that female mosquitoes are able to sense the taste of human blood .

The sense of taste is specially tuned to detect a combination of at least four different substances in blood such as glucose, sodium chloride (common salt), sodium bicarbonate and adenosine triphosphate (ATP).

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