Male insects carrying venom proteins transferred these to disease-spreading females, reducing their lifespan and providing a pest control method. On a still night, as the air is thick with silence, ...

The lifespan of female flies that mated with toxic males decreased – up to 64%. A computer simulation of the toxic male technique for Aedes aegypti, a mosquito that transmits several viruses ...

The team then tracked, over a two-month period, how many offspring each male produced when competing against other males for a female partner to mate with. After performing more than 2,000 ...