ARVIN, Calif. (KERO) — Since Arvin and Lamont are agricultural-based communities, Kern County Mosquito and Vector Control District says they're at higher risk of developing more mosquito breeding ...

Female mosquitoes bite us because they need our blood to produce eggs. During this feeding process, infected mosquitoes can transmit such diseases as Zika, dengue, and yellow fever, making them one of ...

Mosquito-borne diseases, including dengue, Zika, and yellow fever, continue to pose a significant global health threat, infecting millions of people annually. Yet current control efforts face growing ...

Mosquitoes are the deadliest creatures on Earth — each year, nearly a million people die from a disease they caught from one of the tiny insects. Rather than focusing on finding a cure for bug-borne ...

ITHACA, N.Y. - As carriers for diseases like dengue and Zika, mosquitoes kill more than 1 million people each year and sicken hundreds of millions more. But a better understanding of mosquito ...

The secret of the world’s deadliest animal’s reproductive success could lead to fewer baby mosquitoes. That could mean improved pest control. FIU Biomolecular Sciences Institute researchers ...

Scientists have developed a new method to contain the spread of mosquito-borne diseases like dengue, yellow fever, and Zika by making male mosquitoes deaf, particularly targeting Aedes aegypti ...

Scientists have nearly wiped out the local populations of one of the world’s most invasive mosquito species on two islands in Guangzhou, China. The first approach, called the sterile insect technique ...

FILE - This 2003 photo provided by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows a female Aedes albopictus mosquito acquiring a blood meal from a human host. After last weekend’s showers and a ...

We’re in the midst of severe drought, yet it’s more common than ever to get a mosquito bite in California. People can be heard lamenting that the Golden State is turning into humid Florida. What we ...

Texas officials are warning residents to brace themselves—not for hurricanes or heatwaves, but for something far smaller and deadlier: mosquitoes. Thanks to recent storms and rising global ...

Ticks and mosquitoes are more than just annoying to your cookout or hike in the woods. They can actually cause serious illnesses and in some cases, death. In early May 2018 the Centers for Disease ...