From 23 ABC
April 19, 2022
Mosquito bites are not pleasant.
“It takes and wiggles that mouth pore through the threads in your clothing,” Michael Roe, a professor at the North Carolina State University Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology, said.
And sometimes, even a shirt can’t prevent them from getting to you. ”They can bite through animal fur, they can bite through your clothing,” Roe said.
But, at this lab, Roe and his team are developing something to change that, using mosquitos they raise in-house.
“We’ve been able to develop a series of parameters that every textile has, and by having the right combination of those parameters you can prevent a mosquito from biting through that textile,” he explained.