With so much rain lately, you’ve probably noticed masses of mosquitoes in your yard. Just one adult female mosquito can lay hundreds of eggs (larvae) in one sitting. Orlando Entomologist (someone who ...

Treating baby wraps with insect repellent could be an effective and scalable way to protect young children in Africa from ...

Mosquito-borne diseases kill hundreds of thousands every year. The insects spread illnesses like malaria, dengue, and West Nile Virus. Over 700,000 people die annually from these diseases, according ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." When the weather warms, we’re all itching to get outside. But with the great outdoors comes an array of ...

Mosquitoes spread deadly diseases, but eliminating them raises big ethical and environmental questions. This video explores ...

Every year between spring and fall, many local governments and mosquito control districts in the US spray insecticides to kill adult and larval mosquitoes. Now researchers in California and Colorado ...

A drug that makes human blood lethal to mosquitoes also acts as a potent contact insecticide absorbed through the feet, providing a promising new approach to combating insecticide resistance. A new ...

When it comes to battling mosquitoes, tons of people go for bug zappers to give those pesky blood suckers the fate they deserve — over 1.75 million of these devices are sold each year in the U.S. But ...

A team of scientists from the University of Maryland (UMD) and Burkina Faso have conducted the first outside-of-a-laboratory trial of a transgenic method for combating malaria. The method, which kills ...