India, which spends millions of dollars on pesticides to fight malaria-bearing mosquitoes, is starting to concentrate on cheaper, environmentally safer ways of controlling the insects.

It is because the malaria-bearing mosquito stays clear of yellow.

However, in the postcolonial era, as hardwood logging and population growth have attained critical mass, with bush replacing forest and concrete replacing bush, the malaria-bearing mosquito did not die off, but evolved.

He traveled the old Burma Road in a jeep with Christian chaplains, holding Sabbath services before sundown to avoid the malaria-bearing mosquitoes that emerged at nightfall.

But after a narrow escape from Papua New Guinea a few years back, we'd set some limits: no more revolutionary insurgents or malaria-bearing mosquitoes.

The use of prophylactic drugs where malaria-bearing mosquitoes are present may encourage the development of partial immunity.

And the warming global climate is carrying those malaria-bearing mosquitoes north.

This enabled them to stay at somewhat higher ground during the hotter months of summer with malaria-bearing mosquitoes.

The subsequent draining of the marshes had a twofold benefit in that pastureland was created, which supported sheep; and the local malaria-bearing mosquitoes were deprived of their breeding grounds.

He did not know a malaria-bearing mosquito from a bat; he knew nothing about tests of drinking water; and in the matters of plumbing and sewage he was as unlearned as he was voluble.