A single dose of the drug nitisinone could render a person’s blood lethal to mosquitoes for five days, modelling suggests.

Scientists may have found a solution to stop the spread of malaria: poisoning mosquitoes with human blood. New research suggests that the mosquito-borne malady can be curbed by getting the insects ...

Malaria, responsible for hundreds of thousands of deaths each year worldwide, is caused by a parasite transmitted through the ...

The Metropolitan Mosquito Control District predicts there will be four times as many cattails this summer compared to last ...

PORTSMOUTH — The city announced its mosquito control program will begin monitoring on April 7. The city has contracted with Dragon Mosquito Control, Inc. to check swamps, salt marshes, woodland pools, ...

A Plymouth, MN home that has been listed for sale for nearly $1.5 million includes an indoor pool, waterslide, a putting ...

Here, we demonstrate how a simple theoretical framework used in conservation biology—evolutionary rescue models—can be used to investigate the potential for climate adaptation in these taxa, using ...

Harnessing the power of natural, DIY solutions to tackle pesky mosquito invasions is a rapidly growing trend in our environmentally-conscious society. Our quest to decipher the intricacies of these ...

The WMP’s strategy is both ingenious and natural: infect mosquitoes with the Wolbachia bacteria, which occurs naturally in many insects but not in Aedes aegypti. This bacterium reduces the mosquito's ...