Researchers at UCSB created deaf mosquitoes by knocking out a single gene and found that the males had absolutely no interest ...

As mosquitoes and mosquito-borne illnesses like dengue fever spread across the world, researchers say that a key strategy to prevent these illnesses may be dissuading the insects from biting their ...

Male mosquitoes may be nearly as bloodthirsty as females under certain conditions, new research suggests. That upends the notion that only female mosquitoes bite, drink blood and spread diseases ...

During the day, Mosquito Bay is nothing special as Caribbean beaches go. At night, the waters emit a blue glow from organisms called dinoflagellates that live in the waters and light up when ...

A Connecticut father died Monday — five years after he was bitten by an infected mosquito while clearing brush in his wooded backyard. Richard Pawulski, 49, was killed from complications of ...

“We can't forget that, actually, that's really just the tip of the iceberg.” Hotter ocean waters caused by greenhouse gas emissions make storms stronger and they can develop more swiftly into ...

Mosquito larvae grow faster if they're exposed to particular bacteria, according to a new study that could help global health programs.

A line snaked out the door and around the side of the Ocean Springs Civic Center as voters waited Friday, Nov. 5, 2024, to ...

Two more cases of the mosquito-borne dengue virus have been identified in Baldwin Park, bringing to five the recent total concentrated in the area and raising concerns of a “small local outbreak ...

As reported by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), “Mild winters, early springs, and warmer temperatures are giving mosquitoes and ticks more time to reproduce, spread diseases ...

As mosquitoes and mosquito-borne illnesses like dengue fever spread across the world, researchers say that a key strategy to prevent these illnesses may be dissuading the insects from biting their ...