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It all began on August 16, 1897, in a little laboratory in Hyderabad, India when Dr. Ronald Ross, a renowned physician, began dissecting mosquitoes that had fed on a malaria’s patient. On August 20, he dissected another mosquito, and found many of these cells on the stomach wall of the mosquito.
He concluded that these were the malaria parasite stages in the mosquito.
This was significant because until then, no one had any idea of how parasites in the blood of malarious patients were transmitted via mosquitoes.
It is for this work that Ross was awarded the Nobel Prize for medicine in 1902. It was also for this work that Ross himself declared August 20 World Mosquito Day.
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Check out these bug eyes!
Can you identify the insect eye? Leave your answers in the comments section.
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Teen fave Hollister has had to close the doors of its New York City SoHo store due to an infestation of bedbugs.
A spokesman for the Abercrombie & Fitch subsidiary confirms the closing, saying the bedbugs were “affecting certain isolated areas of the store”.
Read the entire article: Hollister Bedbug Infestation Forces NYC Store to Close.
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Photograph by Darlyne A. Muraswski - National Geographic Society
The Happy Face Spider is unique to Hawaii. In fact it is only found on the islands of Oahu, Molokai, Maui, and Hawaii. This tiny spider grows to be approximately 5mm. These spiders guard their eggs and catch prey for offspring. Some of the individual spiders have markings that look like a happy face. Not all spiders have this and it is believed that the spiders developed these markings over time to scare away potential predators.
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Rick Allen and Tom Algeo dance off against the Yellow Wasp!
Thanks Rick and Tom for your sense of humor!
