{"id":32058,"date":"2024-08-28T14:13:48","date_gmt":"2024-08-28T18:13:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/?p=32058"},"modified":"2024-08-28T14:19:17","modified_gmt":"2024-08-28T18:19:17","slug":"nyt-interviews-allie-gardner-on-why-mosquito-bites-itch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/2024\/08\/28\/nyt-interviews-allie-gardner-on-why-mosquito-bites-itch\/","title":{"rendered":"NYT interviews Allie Gardner on why mosquito bites itch"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"472\" height=\"472\" src=\"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/293\/2018\/01\/Gardner_Allie.jpg\" alt=\"Allison Gardner\" class=\"wp-image-14834\" style=\"width:177px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/293\/2018\/01\/Gardner_Allie.jpg 472w, https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/293\/2018\/01\/Gardner_Allie-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/293\/2018\/01\/Gardner_Allie-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/293\/2018\/01\/Gardner_Allie-105x105.jpg 105w, https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/293\/2018\/01\/Gardner_Allie-317x317.jpg 317w, https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/293\/2018\/01\/Gardner_Allie-423x423.jpg 423w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 85vw, (max-width: 768px) 67vw, (max-width: 1024px) 62vw,472px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/people\/allison-gardner\/\">Allison Gardner<\/a>, an associate professor of arthropod vector biology at the University of Maine and a Mitchell Center Faculty Fellow, spoke with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/08\/24\/well\/itchy-mosquito-bites.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The New York Times<\/a> about the mechanics behind mosquito bites and their itching. For relief, Gardner recommends using aloe, hydrocortisone or preventive measures like wearing a net over the face.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Allison Gardner, an associate professor of arthropod vector biology at the University of Maine and a Mitchell Center Faculty Fellow, spoke with The New York Times about the mechanics behind mosquito bites and their itching. For relief, Gardner recommends using aloe, hydrocortisone or preventive measures like wearing a net over the face.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":957,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","spc_primary_category":0},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":3,"label":"News"}]},"featured_image_src_large":false,"author_info":{"display_name":"mitchellcenter","author_link":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/author\/mitchellcenter\/"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":3,"name":"News","slug":"news","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":3,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":611,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":3,"category_count":611,"category_description":"","cat_name":"News","category_nicename":"news","category_parent":0}],"tag_info":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/957"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32058"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32058\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32067,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32058\/revisions\/32067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}