Scientists have recently made a breakthrough by converting the delightful aroma of flowers into a potent mosquito killer.

Mosquito-borne diseases, including malaria and dengue, kill thousands of people per year. In 2023 alone, malaria killed over ...

In the battle against mosquito-borne diseases that kill hundreds of thousands of people each year, scientists turned to an ...

Genetically engineered mosquito-killing fungi delivered from males to females during mating could soon be a promising ally in the fight against malaria. A team of scientists from Burkina Faso and the ...

In experiments, researchers showed that the disease-spreading insects couldn’t resist the sweet smell of a fungus that infected and killed them.

When it comes to battling mosquitoes, tons of people go for bug zappers to give those pesky blood suckers the fate they deserve — over 1.75 million of these devices are sold each year in the U.S. But ...

A group of St. Tammany business leaders presented a report conducted by DA Collin Sims on St. Tammany Mosquito Abatement's ...

In the wild, mosquitoes mate randomly and propagate by Mendelian inheritance, which dictates that a mutation spreads slowly, if at all. Unless the man-made mutation conveyed some strong evolutionary ...

Preliminary tests of dead crows found in Sonoma County show no evidence of West Nile disease, a mosquito-borne virus that sometimes sickens and kills humans, mosquito control officials said Thursday.

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