In 2024, a Washington Post analysis showed that the average number of mosquito days — days with an average humidity of at ...

Balloon sampling has now confirmed that mosquitoes migrating high above West Africa often carry transmissible pathogens, a finding that could reshape how we track and manage vector-borne diseases.

From the late 1800s through the 1950s, Boston was home to Little Syria, an Arab enclave in what is now Chinatown and the South End. Immigrants from Lebanon and Syria lived side by side with other new ...

An insistent buzzing at sunset followed by itchy, spotted legs. Here in Denmark, mosquitoes are mostly an annoying—but generally harmless—nuisance. That is far from the case in many parts of the world ...

The Massachusetts 250 plate, a blue plate featuring the year “1776” and the number “250,” only became available in May of 2025 yet, as of Nov. 7, has 31,526 active registrations. This puts it just ...

Some people around the Sacramento area say they have been getting eaten alive by mosquitoes this November. Jake Hartle, deputy general manager with the Placer County Vector Control District, said the ...

Some people around the Sacramento area say they have been getting eaten alive by mosquitoes this November. Vector control said that the weather is to blame. I toured the White House to see Melania ...

Specialty license plates have been around for decades, but the latest installment that is commemorating the Massachusetts 250 festivities is shattering sales records. So far, more than 29,000 people ...

Leading Massachusetts Republican lawmakers are joining the choir of calls for Gov. Maura Healey to provide “full transparency” on the hiring of her cocaine-busted aide, who was previously charged in ...

A Massachusetts couple says their foster license was revoked after their Christian beliefs led them to refuse to sign a state contract requiring them to "affirm" a child’s gender identity. Lydia and ...

In experiments, researchers showed that the disease-spreading insects couldn’t resist the sweet smell of a fungus that infected and killed them. By Jason P. Dinh Watch your back, DEET. There’s a new ...