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 ...

Genetic alterations may help mosquitoes adjust to climate change, shifting the distribution of mosquito-borne disease in a ...

The virus that causes eastern equine encephalitis, or EEE, has evolved to infect mosquitoes. To be able to spread between ...

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 ...

Another question we get a lot as mosquito researchers is if you are more attractive to a mozzie, does this mean your blood is more nutritious? Although the basic composition of human blood is ...

Q: What do you call 8000 dead mosquitoes in a Mason jar? A: A good start. And [Dan Rojas]’s low-tech mosquito trap accomplished the feat in two nights with nothing fancier than a fan and a ...

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.

Residents in one of the ZIP codes, 89032 in North Las Vegas, reported experiencing attacks from mosquitoes. “We’ve been bitten a lot of times,” said Juan Perez, 18, pointing to his leg.

“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 ...