A mosquito larva entombed in amber for about 99 million years is now the oldest known of its kind, according to a new study. The fossil comes from Kachin in northern Myanmar and likely formed when ...
In experiments, researchers showed that the disease-spreading insects couldn’t resist the sweet smell of a fungus that infected and killed them.
The most dangerous animal in the world just got easier to study—and perhaps defeat one day. Researchers from Rockefeller ...
Vosshall and colleagues say that this is a lock-and-key mechanism, in which the gonostyli serve as the key to open the female ...
Climate change and human-made shelters have created survivable habitat for the cold-adapted mosquito species Culiseta ...
The new fossil, encased in a piece of amber from the Kachin region of Myanmar, represents both the first mosquito larva ...
Female Aedes mosquitoes signal that copulation can proceed by subtly extending their genitalia. Female mosquitoes that ...
Public backlash has forced local officials in Pengyuan—a community in the city of Jiangmen, Guangdong province—to rescind an order requiring residents to surrender their keys so that sanitation ...
"Chikungunya outbreaks are unpredictable in both size and severity," said Alex Perkins, the Ann and Daniel Monahan Collegiate ...
BEING ASKED TO PLAY A HUGE ROLE IN TRYING TO PREVENT IT'S SPREAD.. NADER SIDHOM, A VECTOR CONTROL SPECIALIST IS ON THE FRONT LINE TRYING TO CATCH A MOSQUITO NATIVE TO THE TROPICS BUT JUST RECENTLY ...
An invasive species of mosquito that can carry diseases has been found in Santa Cruz County, authorities announced Monday.
The verdict is in! Scientists have cleared mosquitoes of any responsibility in the spread of Lyme disease, and say ticks are solely to blame for the pervasive disease. Many patients of Lyme disease do ...
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