The Allegheny County Health Department plans to treat areas for mosquitoes where positive samples were found in the neighborhoods of Arlington, Beltzhoover, Carrick, Hazelwood, Knoxville, Mt. Oliver ...

One dragonfly can eat hundreds of mosquitoes in a single day. This makes them one of the best natural methods for curbing ...

Legal advocates and relatives of immigrant detainees held in Florida's notorious Alligator Alcatraz are demanding the closure ...

If you ever find what appears to be an oversized mosquito in your house, it's not there for your blood, in fact, it probably ...

I had been outside attempting to fence in the mosquitoes. I made a noble effort, but it didn’t work. What it did do was work ...

Mosquitoes are highly visual hunters when it comes to finding a human to bite. This means movement and dark clothing colors like black, navy and red can stand out to a mosquito. Research has shown ...

Mosquitoes kill more people each year than any other animal. In 2023, the blood-sucking insects infected a reported 263 ...

Mosquitoes kill more people each year than any other animal. In 2023, the blood-sucking insects infected a reported 263 million people with malaria, leading to nearly 600,000 deaths, 80% of which were ...

Dragonflies might not be a threat to humans, but they're one of the deadliest flying insects on the planet when it comes to ...

A new study reports on a novel way to short-circuit the parasite that spreads the disease so people wouldn't get infected with a mosquito's bite.

The newly developed system uses CRISPR-Cas9 “scissors” and a guide RNA to make a genetic cut at a precise location within the mosquito’s genome. It then replaces the unwanted amino acid that transmits ...