When the summer months come, one of our common problems mosquitoes. Especially at night, when we turn on the light, no one likes the mosquitoes that gather around us, and so do scientists. This is quite understandable, especially when we consider that the creature that causes the most human deaths is the mosquito.

University of California scientists who carry the disease will mosquitoes freeze in pubertydiscovered a method to prevent them from reproducing or maturing. More importantly, this method does not directly affect other living things.

Insecticide for mosquitoes

Name of the researcher Naoki YamanakaIn 2018, he discovered an important steroid hormone that allows carrier proteins to move between the cells of fruit flies. This structure, called ecdysone, also called the melting hormone, is of great importance in flies. Because in the absence of ecdysone, flies cannot grow or reproduce.

although ecdysone While it can play an important role in the life cycle of any insect, a study by Yamanaka and his team discovered a quirk in mosquitoes. According to this, only 3 out of 4 different ecdysone structures have been found in fruit flies and other insects. As a result, new pesticides can be developed in the future to tackle mosquitoes directly.

Looking at the species examined in the study, the drug to be developed at the end of this study will not harm the bees or the species that help pollination and pollination. on the other hand ZikaMosquitoes that carry diseases such as yellow fever and dengue fever will be adversely affected by the drug.