Tag: mosquito

Hungry mosquitoes apparently make for better vectors of disease.

Oldest fossil mosquito found in Lebanese amber suggests ancient males also fed on blood, revising our knowledge of mosquito evolution.

The sneaky viruses have a partnership with mosquitoes.

The insects, all male, will be released into the wild to mate with females. But not everyone's convinced it's a ...

Not the kindest thing to do, probably, but it's still a cool idea.

This safe, non-chemical intervention gives hope that the brutal dengue may be soon eradicated.

Aggressive tiger mosquitoes capable of spreading debilitating tropical diseases such as dengue and Zika are spreading through Europe, but scientists ...

Send some my way too, please!

Dry climate and urbanization prompted the first mosquitoes to increasingly bite humans -- and things aren't looking too well for ...

As far as mosquitoes go, fewer ladies is ideal.

Researchers found a microbe in Kenya that protects mosquitoes against malaria.

But we now know how to stop it.

An aggressive strain of drug-resistant malaria that originated in Cambodia has rapidly spread into neighboring countries.

They track the CO2 you breathe out.

In short: mosquitoes like you more because you're easier to find on their 'radar'.

A genetically modified organism could help mankind eradicate malaria.

The two countries join many others who have recently eliminated malaria from within their borders.

Dengue is a mosquito-borne disease that causes flu-like symptoms but can be lethal and kill up to 20% of those ...

Improvise, adapt, eliminate.

Ultimately, what the mosquito eats, we eat as well.

There's no need to panic, no human cases have yet been reported.

Guess what: one more reason to hate mosquitoes.

Sneaky, sneaky plasmodium.

A drug developed in the 1980s to fight parasites can make human blood toxic to mosquitoes when taken in a ...

This looks like a better alternative to wiping out mosquitoes at the population level.

Mosquitoes learned to associate smells with vibrations mimicking human hand movements produced by "the vortexer" machine.

It seems counterintuitive, but it can work.

A mosquito with a gene that blocks the malaria parasite has been created in the laboratory, a new research reports.

They're a really tough species to fight.

Believe it or not, there's actual scientific proof backing this advice.

The Arctic is overrun with giant mosquitoes: larger, furrier versions of the mosquitoes we all know and hate. As temperatures ...

The ability to keep malaria under control is crucial - the disease is highly contagious and the potential health hazards ...

Reporting in PLOS Medicine, researchers found that for every 1000 children who received the vaccine, 800 malaria cases can be ...

The Anopheles gambiae is the prime transmitter of malaria. A new genetic method manipulates mosquito populations so that only males are ...

Finding mosquitoes trapped in amber is truly exciting, but it's not really unique - there have been several reported cases ...

Some 300 million cases of malaria are reported each year in Africa, the continent where the disease is still running ...

In the aftermath of heavy rains from  Tropical Storms Debby and Andrea, a giant mosquito species has surfaced and invaded central ...

Mosquitoes are not only extremely annoying, but they're some of the most lethal creatures out there, with malaria infecting over ...

So the male mosquito comes, humming an Elvis song, with a rose in his mouth... maybe I'm taking this a ...