In Los Angeles, those who wage war on mosquitoes are adding a weapon to their arsenal: more mosquitoes. The Greater Los Angeles County Vector Control District on Thursday launched a pilot program ...

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

PALO ALTO – The Palo Alto flood basin is set to be sprayed this week for an aggressive species of mosquito known to travel up to 20 miles in search of a “blood meal,” officials said.

A female Aedes aegypti mosquito while she was in the process of acquiring a blood meal from a human host at the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) in 2006. The feeding apparatus consisting of a ...

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 ...

Richard Oxborough plucked a vial of human blood from the rack on his lab bench. The UNLV researcher warmed the blood and fed it to a colony of mosquitoes. The critters won’t be quite as ...

Genetically modified mosquitoes have been released in Florida to combat the spread of mosquito-borne diseases like dengue and Zika. These mosquitoes are designed to reduce the population of ...

In Argentina, the City and Province of Buenos Aires are going through a “peak of abundance” of the Aedes albifasciatus mosquito, which has led specialists to recommend the citizenry to up all ...