A team of engineers and pest control specialists in China has developed a machine that is capable of gender-sorting 16 million mosquito pupae a week. In their paper published in the journal ...

In optimal conditions, most adult mosquito species can live up to two to three weeks, and in some studies, some female ...

It’s hurricane season, that time of the year where Texas weather can be all over the place and can change in an instant.

If you have spent some time outdoors lately, you might find yourself swatting away mosquitoes. Oscar Beall with Mosquito ...

It’s hurricane season, that time of the year where Texas weather can be all over the place and can change in an instant. In ...

The pupae then develop for another 2–3 days before becoming adult mosquitoes. A female Aedes mosquito can lay 100–200 eggs ...

A person in New Hampshire has died after contracting the eastern equine encephalitis virus. EEE is a rare disease transmitted by mosquitoes; only 11 human cases are reported annually on average ...

Image: DeBeaubien and Chandel et al. Behold and cower at the sight of a human arm as seen by a mosquito. That’s right: the bloodsuckers rely on thermal infrared to find a good spot to bite ...

As global temperatures rise due to climate change, mosquito season has lengthened across much of the contiguous United States, a development that scientists warn could heighten the risk of ...

A cluster of three cases in Baldwin Park “is an unprecedented number of locally transmitted cases for a region where dengue ...

A cluster of three cases in Baldwin Park “is an unprecedented number of locally transmitted cases for a region where dengue has not previously been transmitted by mosquitoes.” ...

To some degree, you can predict if your region might have a mosquito explosion in the near future. “If it rains and it's 30 degrees out, you can have mosquitoes go from egg larvae to pupa to adult in ...