Few things are more frustrating than lying in a dark room, drifting off to sleep, when you’re jolted awake by the high-pitched whine of a mosquito, floating through the blackness with a taste ...

This is what Lifehacker calls the “flashlight hunting method”.

That’s all it takes for a mosquito to find you in the dark. They’ll fly around until they can pick up those IR cues. And then they’ll go to town on you.

Glow-in-the-dark mosquitoes could soon help explain what makes the human scent so darn appetizing. In his lab at Johns Hopkins University, Conor McMeniman is genetically engineering mosquitoes so ...

Leslie Vosshall is stalking a mosquito. We’re in a small room that’s full of the little blood-suckers, which are being deliberately bred and raised. Most are safely trapped behind plastic and ...

The fact is that mosquitoes tend to rest in dark, humid places such as under sinks, in showers, in closets, under furniture or even in the laundry room, the CDC points out.

Most mosquitoes chose to rest near the floor, with most of the insects choosing to perch on the first 20 centimeters of the wall, corresponding to 12.3% of the total wall surface.

In the dripping cell in Queens, Dr. Bajwa pointed a flashlight at the 300 mosquitoes clinging to the ceiling of Entrance 1, Room 3 of the city’s official mosquito hibernaculum and pronounced the ...