The 36-year-old resident lives near Lake Dora and said she recently began noticing the swarms of insects — commonly dubbed blind mosquitoes — setting up camp on her family’s house ...

They aren’t blind and they aren’t mosquitoes. But the so-called blind mosquitoes are annoying as heck. Mosquito control crews wage an unending chemical and biological war against true ...

Using Crispr, scientists have taken the first step toward creating a mosquito that is blind to human hosts. By Sabrina Imbler If you could have just one superpower, flight or invisibility ...

Juvenile hormones also play a prominent role in regulating reproductive maturation in adult insects and synthetic juvenile hormone mimics have been widely used as pesticides for mosquito controls.

These pests are aquatic midges also known as “blind mosquitoes” — they look very much like a mosquito, but they don’t bite. The males are often nicknamed “fuzzy bills” because of their ...