Pesticide-Free Clothing Prevents 100 Percent of Mosquito Bites

Mosquitoes landing on bite-resistant fabric during an in vivo bioassay in which they fail to probe through the fabric due to its small pore size. The proboscis bends when mosquitoes try to push through the fabric.Christopher Badzioch/iStock

New insecticide-free, mosquito-resistant clothing is made from materials researchers have confirmed to be bite-proof in experiments with live mosquitoes.

Researchers developed the materials using a computational model of their own design, which describes the biting behavior of Aedes aegypti, the mosquito that carries viruses that cause human diseases like Zika, Dengue fever, and yellow fever.