Nature's most formidable predators are often female, wielding power through strategy, cunning, and fierce maternal instincts.

Female mosquitoes that transmit dengue and other diseases are actually in charge during sex, according to a study that ...

A female mosquito only gets one shot to get reproduction right: She mates just a single time in her entire life.

New research shows female mosquitoes, not males, control mating with a quick motion that dictates reproductive success.

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 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 ...

This story was originally published by The Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Mosquitoes have been found in Iceland for the first time as global heating makes ...

There has been a mosquito population explosion across the Phoenix area recently. Recent rainstorms contributed to the increase in mosquitoes. There are ways to protect yourself and your pets from ...

A type of mosquito that was believed to have evolved in the London Underground has a much older origin in the Mediterranean, according to a new genetic study. The myth originated during World War II ...

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Subterranean mosquitoes specialized for life in subways and sewers first evolved to pester humans millennia ago in Mediterranean civilizations. A widely accepted story about the mosquitoes’ evolution ...