While the emergence of colourful butterflies is a welcome sign of summer, the constant buzzing of mosquitoes is an annoying ...

Analysis - While the emergence of colourful butterflies is a welcome sign of summer, the constant buzzing of mosquitoes is an ...

Why does a local case cause concern? Malaria is a disease that can be fatal and is transmitted to humans by infected female ...

Malaria remains one of the most persistent public health challenges in Africa, despite decades of concerted efforts to reduce ...

Increased rainfall, higher temperatures and land-use changes have created ideal breeding conditions for mosquitoes.

They therefore have the potential for use in clean technologies to control malaria-transmitting mosquitoes (Dilani et al., 2022). Anopheles stephensi and A. culicifacies populations from 52 study ...

There's personality, appearance, seduction, all manner of physical and social cues. Mosquitoes are much more blunt. Mating occurs for a few seconds in midair. And all it takes to woo a male is the ...

Scientists are exploring a novel approach to combat mosquito-borne diseases like dengue by targeting their mating process. By genetically altering male mosquitoes, researchers have successfully ...

Oct. 8, 2024 — Driven in part by climate change, epidemics from mosquito-spread viruses are occurring with increasing frequency. Yet few among the American public are worried about getting West ...

Scientists believe they have found a quirky way to fight mosquito-spread diseases such as dengue, yellow fever and Zika - by turning male insects deaf so they struggle to mate and breed.