Sourced from an Australian plant toxin, nitisinone can turn a mosquito's everyday lunch into a fatal last meal. Mosquitoes may have just met their match: A prescription drug already used to treat a ...

If you’ve ever wondered how much blood a mosquito actually takes from you during that annoying bite, prepare to be surprised: it’s not a lot at least, not for a human! But for the mosquito, it’s a ...

For starters, a mosquito can transmit pathogens at the probing stage, which happens before it starts feeding. "It kind of ...

It was thought that Aedes aegypti could not survive in the Mountain West. But now, a population is thriving in Colorado.

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It's bound to happen at a summer picnic, a peaceful walk in the woods or simply sitting in your backyard… a mosquito targets ...

Researcher Dale Greenwalt at the Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C., has discovered that a 46 million-year-old fossilized mosquito in the Smithsonian’s collection is engorged with blood. The ...

Female Aedes mosquitoes signal that copulation can proceed by subtly extending their genitalia. Female mosquitoes that transmit dengue and other diseases are actually in charge during sex, according ...

The number of mosquitoes infected with potentially deadly viruses has been increasing in Luzerne County, researchers have ...

Metarhizium robertsii, a pathogenetic soil-dwelling fungus, infects a variety of insects through spores that eventually kill them. Scientists have known that the fungus can spread when a healthy bug ...