Romance is a complex affair in humans. There’s personality, appearance, seduction, all manner of physical and social cues. Mosquitoes are much more blunt. Mating occurs for a few seconds in midair.

Female Aedes mosquitoes signal that copulation can proceed by subtly extending their genitalia. Female mosquitoes that ...

Native Hawaiian honeycreeper birds are being wiped out by avian malaria. Scientists think they can battle the problem by ...

A high-pitched buzzing sound in your ear is an unmistakable sign that a female mosquito is out on the hunt - for they, not males, drink blood. Hearing that tone might make you turn to try to swat the ...

Mosquitoes have reached Iceland, a place once thought too harsh for them to survive. Climate change may play a role in this shift.

The mosquito buzzing that you find annoying and disgusting is irresistible to a male mosquito. The mosquito buzzing that you find annoying and disgusting is irresistible to a male mosquito. He follows ...

The female mosquito only mates once in her lifetime, and yet she can develop many hundreds of eggs from this single event. After each blood feeding, she draws from an internal sperm storage unit to ...

It turns out that was no fly. Hjaltason had captured one of Iceland’s first mosquitoes—a Culiseta annulata, one of the ...

Romance is a complex affair in humans. There's personality, appearance, seduction, all manner of physical and social cues. Mosquitoes are much more blunt. Mating occurs for a few seconds in midair.

Mosquitoes are much more blunt. Mating occurs for a few seconds in midair. And all it takes to woo a male is the sound of a female’s wingbeats. Imagine researchers’ surprise when a single change ...