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Mosquitoes Are Drawn to Flowers As Much as People — Now Scientists Finally Know Why - SciTechDaily

DEET, a common and controversial mosquito repellant. Their findings show how environmental cues from flowers can stimulate the mosquito brain as much as a warm-blooded host — and can draw the mosquito toward a target or send it flying the other direction, said Riffell, who is the senior author of the study. The researchers used bags placed over the orchids to collect samples of their scents in the field. Credit: Kiley Riffell The blunt-leaf orchid, or Platanthera obtusata, grows in cool, high-latitude climates across the Northern Hemisphere. From field stations in the Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest in Washington state, Riffell’s team verified past research showing that local mosquitoes pollinate this species, but not its close relatives that grow in the same habitat. When researchers covered the flowers with bags — depriving the mosquitoes of a visual cue for the flower — the mosquitoes would still land on the bagged flowers and attempt to feed through the canvas. Orchid scent obviously attracted the mosquitoes. To find out why, Riffell’s team turned to the individual chemicals that make up the blunt-leaf orchid’s scent. “We often describe ‘scent’ as if it’s one thing — like the scent of a flower, or the scent of a person,” said Riffell. “Scent is actually a complex combination of chemicals — the scent of a rose consists of more than 300 — and mosquitoes can detect the individual types of chemicals that make up a scent.” Riffell describes the blunt-leaf orchid’s scent as a grassy or musky odor, while its close relatives have a sweeter fragrance. The team used gas chromatography and mass spectroscopy to identify dozens of chemicals in the scents of the Platanthera species. Compared to its relatives, the blunt-leaf orchid’s scent contained high amounts of a compound called nonanal, and smaller amounts of another chemical, lilac aldehyde. Using a gas chromatogram to separate the individual chemicals that make up a flower’s scent while simultaneously recording electrical activity from a mosquito’s antenna to see which chemicals stimulate the mosquito’s antenna. Credit: Kiley Riffell Riffell’s team also recorded the electrical activity in mosquito antennae, which detect scents. Both nonanal and lilac aldehyde stimulated antennae of mosquitoes that are native to the blunt-leaf orchid’s habitat. But these compounds also stimulated the antennae of mosquitoes from other regions, including ...

Mosquitoes are drawn to flowers as much as people — and now scientists know why - UW News

DEET, a common and controversial mosquito repellant. The researchers used bags placed over the orchids to collect samples of their scents in the field.Kiley Riffell Their findings show how environmental cues from flowers can stimulate the mosquito brain as much as a warm-blooded host — and can draw the mosquito toward a target or send it flying the other direction, said Riffell, who is the senior author of the study. The blunt-leaf orchid, or Platanthera obtusata, grows in cool, high-latitude climates across the Northern Hemisphere. From field stations in the Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest in Washington state, Riffell’s team verified past research showing that local mosquitoes pollinate this species, but not its close relatives that grow in the same habitat. When researchers covered the flowers with bags — depriving the mosquitoes of a visual cue for the flower — the mosquitoes would still land on the bagged flowers and attempt to feed through the canvas. Orchid scent obviously attracted the mosquitoes. To find out why, Riffell’s team turned to the individual chemicals that make up the blunt-leaf orchid’s scent. “We often describe ‘scent’ as if it’s one thing — like the scent of a flower, or the scent of a person,” said Riffell. “Scent is actually a complex combination of chemicals — the scent of a rose consists of more than 300 — and mosquitoes can detect the individual types of chemicals that make up a scent.” img class="size-medium wp-image-65747" src="https://s3-us...

Obituary: Leonard Mathew Saari, 81, Of Riverside - Greenwich, CT Patch

Hudson Opera, and several local Gilbert & Sullivan productions. For many years he was an enthusiastic member of the Off Sounders, a local acapella men's singing group. Len and his wife travelled and performed in Greenwich Choral Society concerts at Christ Church, Oxford; Winchester Cathedral; Westminster Abbey; the Cathedral at Chartres; the Madeleine, and Notre Dame.In Boca Grande he enjoyed singing with the Barbershop Chorus, Bocapella, the Boca Grande Chorale, and the St. Andrew's Church Choir, and he performed in many musical show productions, including Godspell, Mame, and Guys and Dolls, during eighteen years of warm winter months.The entire family has wonderful memories of skiing trips to Europe, Canada and throughout the United States when the children were younger. In later years Yanna and Len played golf at Greenwich Country Club and Lemon Bay Golf Club, with vacations at many world famous golf courses, among which are Pebble Beach, Sea Island, Pinehurst and St. Andrew's.Len is survived by his wife, Yanna, his daughter Allison Saari Byrne and her husband, Josh, his sister, Shirley Doak, and several nephews and nieces. He was predeceased in 2012 by his daughter Karina.A memorial service is planned for Saturday, November 16, at 11:00 AM at the First Congregational Church of Greenwich, 106 Sound Beach Avenue, Old Greenwich, CT. In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made in his name to the First Congregational Church of Greenwich or to the charity of your choice.

In Bloom Festival of Flowers at the Springfield Museums - Afro American Point of View

Sunday, that adds atmospheric music to the experience of seeing the flower displays. This new series includes “The Cat’s Chorus,” an a cappella group from the Community Music School formed specifically to work with The Springfield Museums. This is a special project of Jenny Powers, the Family Engagement Coordinator for the Museums. “I love working together with the Community Music School,” Powers said. “The children and youth there always inspire the people listening to their music!” The group will perform on the Festival of Flowers Family Day April 6 from 1-2 pm. The Festival of Flowers has become one of the most anticipated moments in the Museums’ calendar. Free with museum admission. Please see full schedule below. For more information, call 413-314-6486 or email lmurray@springfieldmuseums.org. Full Schedule for the Festival of FlowersThursday, April 4-Sunday, April 7, 2019 Museums À La Carte Lecture American Impressionism and the Garden Thursday, April 4, 12:15 pm Presenter: Amy Kurtz Lansing, curator, Florence Griswold Museum. American Impressionist painters delighted in depicting gardens as places for rest, rejuvenation, and creative experimentation. Gardens and the emerging field of garden design became avenues for navigating societal shifts underway during the Progressive era, a phenomenon expressed by American Impressionists on canvas. This lecture will explore the art of Childe Hassam, Willard Metcalf, Matilda Browne, and other Impressionists for whom the garden was a muse. $2 members; $4 nonmembers. Evening Celebration Culture & Cocktails Thursday, April 4, 5-8 pm Celebrate Festival of Flowers with signature cocktails and creative hors d’oeuvres. View the interpretive arrangements in the art and science museums while enjoying music, a floral demonstration by Durocher Florist, and hands-on activities. Visit The DIY Flower Workshop to create your own bouquet to take home. $10 members; $20 nonmembers. Sponsored by MassLive and The Republican. Reservations: Call 413.263.6800, ext. 379, or visit //SpringfieldMuseums.org/flowers. Ongoing Activities The DIY Flower Workshop Thursday-Sunday, 11 am-4 pm Bring Festival of Flowers home with you! Join Springfield Florists Supply staff and Museum educators to learn about cut flowers and design your own bou...

Cherry blossoms, tulips and lilacs: Flower festival time

The city planted 100,000 tulips back in 1929, and the annual celebration of the tulip now includes entertainment, costumes, parades and activities.Pella, Iowa, has also been hosting a Tulip Time celebration for decades. Pella’s event is May 3-5, and includes parades, Dutch costumes and performances, a craft and vendor fair, quilt and flower shows in addition to the tulip gardens.The Skagit Valley Tulip Festival, based in Mount Vernon in the state of Washington, runs through April 30.Cherry blossomsIn Washington, D.C., the peak of the cherry blossoms along the Tidal Basin was in early April, but some trees are still in bloom. The National Cherry Blossom Festival, which ran through last week, marked the 1912 gift of 3,000 cherry trees from a Tokyo mayor to the U.S. capital city.The Brooklyn Botanic Garden in New York City also celebrates the blooming of cherry trees that were a gift from the Japanese government. A two-day festival called Sakura Matsuri is April 28-29 with some 60 events, including performances by taiko drummers. The garden features a Japanese pond and garden as well as an esplanade lined with some of its 200 cherry trees.Flower fests elsewhereIn Rochester, N.Y., the annual Lilac Festival is May 11-20. Organizers say the event draws more than 500,000 people to see not just the largest lilac collection in the U.S., but also music and comedy shows, art exhibits, a race and more. Another lilac festival is held on Mackinac Island in Michigan, June 8-17.Bluebonnet season brings out locals and visitors alike in Texas Hill Country. Typically they bloom the last week of March through April, though as with all flowers, it can be hard to predict.Walt Disney World’s Epcot International Flower & Garden Festival runs through May 28 with display gardens, entertainment and more at the theme park just outside Orlando, Fla. (Honolulu Star-Advertiser)

Chapel Hill Zen Center to celebrate Buddha's birthday Sunday – Flo ...

Tickets are $20 in advance, $25 at the door.Organ crawlProgressive Evening Organ Crawl with silent film accompaniment will be offered by the Durham-Chapel Hill Chapter of the American Guild of Organists Friday, April 28.The Chapel Hill event will begin at 6:15 p.m. at Chapel of the Cross with organ music and a liturgical design presentation by Terry Byrd Eason, liturgical design consultant.At 7:10 p.m. at University United Methodist Church, Scott F. Foppiano will accompany a silent film. Hors d’oeuvre and punch will be served.At 8:30 p.m. at Holy Trinity Lutheran Church a presentation on how organs work will be given and dessert and champagne will be served. All churches located on, or just a block off, East Franklin Street.Adult tickets are $10; children and students, free.PassoverJudea Reform Congregation, 1933 W. Cornwallis Road, Durham, marked the second night of Passover with a seder focused on the plight of refugees in the Triangle.Through its partnership with resettlement agency Church World Service-Durham and PORCH, a nonprofit food-focused organization, refugees were invited along with a staff member from CWS-Durham.“The Passover story is one of migration from deprivation to freedom. And while it is always meant to be understood as both timeless and timely, some years it feels more so,” said Rabbi Larry Bach of Judea Reform Congregation in Durham.Judea Reform formed its resettlement committee less than a year ago. Since then it has led the congregation to donate backpacks filled with school supplies for local refugee children, transcribe refugee experiences of Judea Reform congregants, furnish an apartment for a newly arrived family, donate winter coats to refugees in need, purchase GoDurham Bus Passes for refugees needing transportation and raise $5,300 for job training programs in partnership with SONAM (Singers of New and Ancient Music), a nonprofit chorus.Religious research Duke University will use a $1.5 million grant from Lilly Endowment Inc. to assess how America’s religious congregations’ demographics and practices are changing, Valerie Ashby, dean of Duke’s Trinity College of Arts & Sciences, has announced.This ongoing National Congregations Study at Duke includes American churches, synagogues, mosques and other places of worship. Mark Chaves, a Duke professor of sociology, religious studies and divinity, directs the study.More than 3,800 congregations have participated in the first three phases of the study, which has taken place between 1998 and 2012.“The new funding will enable us to update and expand the sol... (Durham Herald Sun)