To capture mosquito departures, Sofia Chang of the Animal Flight Laboratory at the University of California, Berkeley and her colleagues set up a flight arena for mosquitoes. Using three high ...

Participants use low-cost mosquito traps in their backyards to capture mosquitoes. They photograph the collections and send them to researchers for identification. Citizen scientists also ...

The trailing-edge vortex is a new form of 'wake capture', where the mosquitoes align their wings with the fluid flows they created during the previous wingbeat, recycling energy that would ...

Simple strategies to keep these biters at bay, plus what to do about stinging insects By Catherine Roberts Ideally, you’re ...

Entomologist and wildlife photographer Gil Wizen spent four years trying to capture the perfect image of an iridescent blood-sucking mosquito. His persistence - and risks - paid off as his photo: ...

Researchers in Australia have tested modifications to two common types of mosquito traps to allow mosquito excreta, or liquid waste droplets, to be collected for virus detection. A diagram shows ...

"It's very hard to capture mosquitoes," Candasua told AFP, explaining how he strategically chose a darkly lit fire station where he used a cup to manually trap the insects against a wall.

MIAMI — Mosquitoes might be the bane of a summer barbecue in Kendall or a stroll on Miami Beach, but researchers in Florida are now also looking at the insects’ more obscure targets — and ...