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Male mosquitoes have feathery and bushier antennas than females. The female antennas are usually plainer than that of the males. Furthermore, males have a larger Johnston’s organ in their ...
The lab-raised, non-biting male mosquitoes are meant to breed with the invasive ones on the islands and produce sterile eggs ...
Releases of sterile male mosquitoes in L.A. County drove down the pest population, studies found. But homeowners would need to pay to bring them to a wider area.
Conservationists working to save Hawaii’s endangered, native birds are now using drones to deliver lab-reared, male ...
Mosquitoes have long been among humanity’s most formidable adversaries, plaguing us for thousands of years and causing more ...
Male mosquitoes detect a wider range of sounds than females, including both female wingbeats and mixed-frequency distortion products, enabling them to locate mates in noisy environments.
Scientists are dumping thousands of mosquitos into Hawaii's forests, and they have a really good reason for it.
Conservationists are using mosquito birth control to fight a bird-killing disease in the islands’ last safe habitats.
Scientists are dropping live mosquitoes out of drones in Hawaii to protect the colourful songbirds known as honeycreepers.
In a bold conservation move, scientists in Hawaii are using drones to release lab-bred, non-biting male mosquitoes into ...
Using genetic tools, researchers can edit the genetic makeup of mosquitoes and make the females infertile. In January, scientists in Australia said that they were able to alter male mosquitoes to ...