With a grant award from the American Mosquito Control Association Research Fund, Utah State University ecologist Norah Saarman and her students are using morphology, DNA testing and machine learning ...

It is transmitted principally by Culex mosquitoes. Birds are the reservoir for the virus and mosquitoes acquire the virus when they feed on infected birds. Depending on the strain of the virus and the ...

yet varied species make themselves at home in the Beehive state. Among these pesky fliers is the Northern House Mosquito, Culex pipiens, which can spread West Nile Virus and St. Louis encephalitis ...

Aedes aegypti are aggressive daytime biters. Culex quinquefasciatus, the most-trapped mosquito species in the area and the variety that spreads West Nile, feed on birds and humans usually at twilight.

A new mosquito species endemic to Sri Lanka has been discovered in Mirigama, raising fresh concerns among health officials as ...

They photograph the collections and send them to researchers for identification ... Australian backyard mosquito (Aedes notoscriptus) and the southern house mosquito (Culex quinquefasciatus ...

F or decades, Culex pipiens f. molestus was called the “London Underground Mosquito”. Most people, including scientists, believed molestus rapidly evolved from an existing species in northern ...

As Science News noted, “Even if the mosquitoes prove competent at passing along Zika, there remain questions of whether their tastes, behavior, and ecology will lead them to actually do so.” ...