Dengue is a mosquito-borne virus affecting millions of people each year, with symptoms ranging from flu-like illness to ...

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — It’s lunchtime at the Salt Lake City Mosquito Abatement District and a colony of sabethes cyaneus — also known as the paddle-legged beauty for its feathery appendages and ...

Though the Pine-Sol mosquito control hack may offer some relief, there are far more effective ways to keep these bugs at bay.

Mosquitoes can bring an otherwise serene balcony or garden to an uncomfortable location in no time. Although chemical ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Use plants, citronella, and essential oil sprays to naturally repel mosquitoes without harming pollinators. Remove standing water ...

Researchers have developed a new “color-coded” genetic method that makes it easy to distinguish male and female mosquitoes. This innovation can help solve a major bottleneck in mosquito control ...

Researcher Melanie Hempel handles a mosquito specimen in the lab. Hempel helped develop the DeMark system, a new method for producing nonbiting male mosquitoes for disease control. Scientists at ...

A project that would slow the spread of avian malaria with “mosquito birth control” received another green light this week as conservation organizations try to save Maui’s critically endangered native ...

People living in areas with infected male mosquitoes saw their dengue risk drop 71% ...

Poet D. H. Lawrence writes “Settle and stand on long thin shanks. Eyeing me sideways, and cunningly conscious that I am aware, you speck. I hate the way you lurch off sideways into air having read my ...

CHAMBERSBURG, Pa. — If you've noticed there are more mosquitoes to deal with this summer, you're not alone. Thanks in part to Central Pennsylvania's unusually wet spring and early summer, which ...