Could eliminating mosquitoes' sense of hearing be the key to eliminating mosquito-borne diseases like dengue, yellow fever, ...

Back-to-back Hurricanes Helene and Milton flooded rivers in west-central Florida and left ideal conditions for mosquitoes to ...

Transmitted by mosquitoes, EEE is a virus that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention describe as "a rare but serious ...

Scientists may have found a unique way to fight mosquito-borne diseases such as dengue, yellow fever and Zika -- by turning ...

The "shocking" findings could help efforts to prevent the spread of diseases like dengue, yellow fever, and Zika.

Scientists have discovered that a type of bacteria, Asaia, accelerates the growth of Aedes aegypti mosquito larvae by a day, ...

RECORD-breaking heat, extreme weather events, air pollution and the spread of infectious disease: climate change poses an ...

Male mosquitoes that fail to hear potential females do not end up mating — a phenomenon that could have major implications for insect-borne disease spread, a new study has determined.

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

For many of these diseases, few countermeasures exist. Malaria has two new vaccines that are beginning to be rolled out in ...

Experts say victims of the floods and volunteers helping in the clean up are all now at risk of suffering mosquito-borne ...

Romance is a complex affair in humans. There's personality, appearance, seduction, all manner of physical and social cues. Mosquitoes are much more blunt. Mating occurs for a few seconds in midair.