The transmission of malaria by the Anopheles cruzii mosquito in the South and Southeast of Brazil was so alarming in the 1940s—with approximately 4,000 cases per 100,000 people—that the disease became ...

The transmission of malaria by the Anopheles cruzii mosquito in the South and Southeast of Brazil was so alarming in the 1940s – with approximately ...

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

Research led by the University of Auckland has cast light on the evolutionary origins of one of nature's first motors, which ...

Dengue fever, spread by the daytime-biting Aedes aegypti mosquito, poses a significant threat, especially during monsoon ...

A naturalist near Reykjavík, the capital city of Iceland, made a surprising discovery of three mosquitoes buzzing in the air.

Iceland recorded its first verified population of mosquitoes. The cold-tolerant species Culiseta annulata survived Iceland’s ...

Before the discovery, Iceland was just one of two places on Earth that did not have mosquitos, “largely due to its unique ...

Mosquitoes are ectothermic and typically become less active as temperatures drop. Some species are more cold-tolerant than others. However, according to the World Population Review, there have been no ...

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 ...

AUGUSTA-- The Maine Department of Health and Human Services' Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention (Maine CDC) announced today that mosquitoes in the Cumberland County city of Portland ...