Authorities in one of the Philippines' most densely-populated urban centres are offering a cash reward for mosquitoes in an attempt to stop the spread of dengue. Carlito Cernal, village chief of ...

The hope is that the fish will devour millions of mosquito larvae before they have a chance to transform into flying, biting, disease-carrying adults. By Deborah Netburn. Staff Writer Follow.

Invasive mosquito fish are often fearless. Free from the predators of their native range, these mosquito fish run rampant, throwing naive ecosystems from Europe to Australia out of whack. To keep ...

Mosquitoes may have a taste for human blood, but there’s one fish out there with a taste for them. The Florida Department of Health in Orange County is enlisting the eastern mosquito fish in … ...

The Gambusia affinis is commonly known as the "mosquito fish" because of its healthy appetite for the larvae of the irritating and disease-spreading insects. Lately, ...

The mosquitofish, a guppy-sized fish that lives in roadside drainage ditches, helps keep the Northshore's mosquito population in check. But raw sewage may be keeping it from doing its job.