Unlike humans who hear through ears, mosquitoes hear through their antennae, those delicate, feather-like structures extending from their heads ... antennae.” For male Aedes aegypti mosquitoes ...

One of the reasons it's been so troubling is that it's a cause of a serious birth defect called microcephaly, in which the head of babies ... genetically modifies male mosquitoes to carry a ...

How gene drive technology works There are thousands of mosquito species in the world, but very few pose a danger to humans. Male mosquitoes don't bite humans; only females infected with a virus or ...

The Collier Mosquito Control District is using sterile males to fight the overall population. It's one of the newer ...

McBride said they’re the first mosquito control district ever to do this. Essentially, their scientists sterilize male mosquitoes, then release them in a neighborhood. Those mosquitoes mate with ...

Male insects carrying venom proteins transferred these to disease-spreading females, reducing their lifespan and providing a pest control method. On a still night, as the air is thick with silence, ...

Purdue University professor Pablo Zavattieri holds a 3D-printed mosquito head. His team is recreating mosquito antennae to better study their sensitivity to vibrations, which may improve how ...