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Blood feeding is a critical event in the life cycle of female mosquitoes. In addition, blood feeding facilitates the transmission of parasites and viruses to hosts, potentially having devastating health consequences. Despite the vital role of this event for the reproductive success of mosquitoes, and the epidemiological implications to their hosts, very few methods can monitor and record biting behavior at high spatial and temporal resolution. As such, our understanding of these short, yet important, bouts of behavior is incomplete. In this issue, Murray et al. describe a workflow to use the biteOscope, a platform that enables high-resolution monitoring and video recording of blood-feeding mosquitoes (doi:10.1101/pdb.prot108176). The image shows several Aedes aegypti mosquitos descending upon an artificial blood meal. The ensuing feeding frenzy is filmed using the biteOscope. Image provided by Felix Hol.