But there's more to this unexpected mutualistic relationship than that. These species of spider and frog have been found in the same area, and even share the same burrows. The frogs use the ...

About one out of 150 infected people develop a serious, sometimes fatal, illness. West Nile Virus is carried by Culex ...

Jackson County Vector Control and Jackson County Public Health Division have confirmed the identification of Aedes aegypti ...

"It becomes highly attractive to Culex mosquitoes, which are the species that transmit West Nile Virus and they start to lay ...

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The case marked the first confirmed infection in Iowa in 2024. “What we’ve seen in the past is that these are really the ...

“Even if these other mosquito species come into contact with the virus, they can’t successfully transmit it,” explained Smith. “The Culex species have somewhat evolved to drive the ...

Mosquitoes typically overwinter in warm, sheltered locations like stormwater sewers in urban areas.

On the freezing waves of the Southern Ocean around Antarctica, researchers aboard the ARSV Laurence M. Gould dropped a trawling net into the water. They were hoping to catch zooplankton, but when ...

A culex pipiens mosquito under a microscope. Culex pipiens are a species of mosquito that spread West Nile virus. ((Photo by Jon Cherry/Getty Images)) The products are applied to where mosquitoes ...