A TikTok user known as Mama Mila has offered up her natural, secret weapon against pesky mosquitoes without resorting to ...

Anais Medina Diaz, San Gabriel Valley Vector Control District, talks about mosquito control efforts in the Eaton Fire zone.

A team of ecologists and entomologists affiliated with several institutions in Brazil, working with a colleague from Mexico, ...

Scientists in Australia have identified the oldest known fossil footprints of a reptile-like animal on a slab of sandstone ...

As warmer weather moves into the Carolinas, expect to see more mosquitoes. We are going through some common myths about ...

like potted plants where the mosquitoes may lay eggs, and some hitch hike on a boat or aircraft, because the higher temperature is really good for their survival. They're cold-blooded, so they ...

Female mosquitoes need to drink blood of some kind in order to lay eggs. Male mosquitoes, which do not lay eggs, subsist primarily on nectar. A male mosquito’s proboscis – its elongated ...

One approach to mosquito control is to disrupt biochemical processes required for mosquito egg production as a means to decrease reproduction rates. Female mosquitoes feed on blood to obtain the ...

Scientists are genetically modifying mosquitoes in the hope of stopping the spread of malaria. The technique, which uses genes taken from the honeybee and the African clawed frog, blocks normal ...

They use the nutrients from the host blood to produce eggs. While obtaining a blood meal from a host, the female mosquito injects its saliva into the skin. Its saliva prevents blood clots ...

In a new study, Yale researchers have now shown how different tastes are encoded by neurons in mosquitoes and how they influence biting, feeding, and egg-laying. They also identify compounds in human ...

They live primarily in urban, densely populated areas and can replicate in tiny amounts of water—just a capful of water can house hundreds of mosquito eggs. With an estimated 80% of people ...