ARVIN, Calif. (KERO) — Since Arvin and Lamont are agricultural-based communities, Kern County Mosquito and Vector Control District says they're at higher risk of developing more mosquito breeding ...

Female mosquitoes bite us because they need our blood to produce eggs. During this feeding process, infected mosquitoes can transmit such diseases as Zika, dengue, and yellow fever, making them one of ...

Mosquito-borne diseases, including dengue, Zika, and yellow fever, continue to pose a significant global health threat, ...

ITHACA, N.Y. - As carriers for diseases like dengue and Zika, mosquitoes kill more than 1 million people each year and sicken hundreds of millions more. But a better understanding of mosquito ...

In the first study of its kind, mosquitoes captured high above Mali and Ghana were found to be infected with arboviruses, ...

Mosquito researchers may have hatched a new plan to control the bloodsuckers: Break their eggshells. In these scanning electron micrograph images, the shells of Aedes aegypti eggs lacking a protein ...

Mosquitoes are the deadliest creatures on Earth — each year, nearly a million people die from a disease they caught from one of the tiny insects. Rather than focusing on finding a cure for bug-borne ...

FILE - This 2003 photo provided by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows a female Aedes albopictus mosquito acquiring a blood meal from a human host. After last weekend’s showers and a ...

Scientists have nearly wiped out the local populations of one of the world’s most invasive mosquito species on two islands in Guangzhou, China. The first approach, called the sterile insect technique ...