The complexity continues to the brain, the team found. “In mosquitoes, we saw a lot of overlap in the brain,” says Herre, with individual antennal lobe glomeruli receiving olfactory information from ...

As mosquitoes and mosquito-borne illnesses like dengue fever spread across the world, researchers say that a key strategy to prevent these illnesses may be dissuading the insects from biting their ...

What a Bite Looks and Feels Like A person who gets bitten by a mosquito will notice a round pink or red bump that itches a lot. If you think you've been bitten by a mosquito, wash the bite with soap ...

As we enter the summer months, there are many things to look forward to like warmer weather and longer days. However, summer also means mosquitoes are at an all time high – why can’t we ever ...

Because a lot of our funding comes from the military ... Unit trains and works with partners around the world on mosquito identification. Here, Linton works with a partner in Tanzania.

“There’s a lot of vegetation, a lot of nice nesting and roosting habitat” to attract the birds, he said. Birds are key to transmission of mosquito-borne illnesses. Humans can become infected ...

In addition, puddles of warm water that form from sudden evening showers are favored breeding grounds for mosquitoes. “There was a lot of such rainfall in many areas this year, so it is likely ...