Natural Mosquito Trap. Yeast May Help Reduce Malaria

tvp.info

Right

Factuality

Ownership

Yeast and other species of fungi have a close relationship with insects. Just as plants lure animals to eat their fruits and spread their seeds — fungi lure insects to sit on them and collect and spread their cells and spores.Scientists at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health (USA) have studied the ability of common yeast to attract mosquitoes. As it turned out, an orange yeast called Rhodotorula taiwanensis, thanks to its smell and v…

wpolityce.pl

Factuality

Ownership

Some yeast species may attract mosquitoes to traps as part of the fight against malaria. This mechanism has been described in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).