Here’s a new, and dare we say, an unusual way of controlling mosquitoes from spreading disease. In a newspaper published by Cornell University, to keep mosquitoes in check, you’ve got to find a way not to let them urinate. Yes you heard it right!

Researchers have identified a protein from the renal tubules of Aedes aegypti mosquitoes that's involved in promoting urination while they feed on blood. This is the same protein that spreads the dengue fever causing virus. When mosquitoes consume and process blood meals, they go through fluid and salt overloads in their body, which can kill them. Thus, they must urinate to prevent to keep that state of equilibrium in their bodies.

Peter Piermarini, the paper's lead author, writes, “Mosquitoes that fail to relieve themselves can also become slow, like "an aircraft with too much payload”.

“If they get too heavy, they may become more susceptible to being swatted by their host or eaten by a predator”.

It is being hoped by the scientists that the discovery may open doors to new insecticides that wreck havoc on a mosquito's renal system, thus leaving it more limited in its ability to survive the stresses of a blood meal and further transmit viruses.