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 ...

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.

With a grant award from the American Mosquito Control Association Research Fund, Utah State University ecologist Norah ...

Culex mosquitoes have plagued Dhaka since winter's end, with residents frustrated by the persistent bites. City dwellers allege that the increased Culex mosquito infestation is due to the lack of ...

Mosquitoes have been transmitting the West Nile virus to humans in the United States for over 25 years, but we still don't ...

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 ...

There are 54 species of mosquitoes commonly found in Colorado, but none of them are known to be able to transmit Zika — even if they can, like the Culex mosquitoes, transmit other diseases.

Nairobi consists of the Culex mosquito, which is harmless ... of the existent breeding grounds,” he said. “Each mosquito species has unique environmental resilience limits, depending ...