Colorado’s mountains had record low snow levels, while Salt Lake City and Phoenix were among the cities who had their highest ...

A new study suggests that the deadly insects evolved their taste for human blood much earlier than previously thought, around when Homo erectus migrated into Southeast Asia ...

Early surveillance allows health officials to closely monitor mosquito populations, identify species present in the community, and detect signs of mosquito-borne viruses before peak mosquito season.

Warmer-than-normal temperatures have caused mosquito surveillance to begin a little early across the Las Vegas valley.

A perfect storm of conditions is making mosquitoes, and the diseases they carry, a big threat to human health.

Mosquitoes transmit several pathogens of public health importance, including malaria, dengue, chikungunya and Zika. These ...

Staff are setting mosquito traps throughout the Las Vegas Valley as part of the Health District’s Mosquito Disease Surveillance Program, officials said today in a new release.

A warm body in the rainforest gives off a loud chemical signal. For most mosquitoes, that signal could belong to almost any ...

The team calculated that the mosquitoes likely developed their “ anthropophily ”—their taste for human blood—at a point some ...

These mosquitoes, like the Culex, love wet conditions but they don't like the cold weather. However, Kluh said she theorizes ...

Not all mosquitoes are to blame, however. Every bloodsucking malaria vector comes from those within the group Anopheles leucosphyrus, which encompasses a comparatively small portion of the planet’s ...