Behavioural Mechanisms for thermal navigation fo free-flying mosquitoes

Mosquitoes navigate their environment to locate suitable habitats and find potential blood-hosts. They do so by passively sensing related sensory cues such as temperature, humidity, odours, and wind, but they also employ behavioural mechanisms to enhance their sensing capabilities. We aim to further capture and understand these mechanisms and we will do so by quantifying both the flight trajectories of the mosquitoes and the environmental conditions such as heat, humdity, and airflow. By combining these data, we can relate the flight behaviour to the local conditions and determine how mosquitoes use behavioural mechanisms to interact with their environment.