There are many diseases that mosquitoes can transmit, but HIV isn't one of them. Here's why, and what viruses you do need to watch out for depending on where you live.

Mosquitos, or mosquitoes (both spellings are allowed according to the Merriam-Webster dictionary) are any members of the Culicidae family. Female mosquitos have special organs in their proboscis ...

Mosquitoes are small, flying insects that are common to the U.S. They have a long, needle-like mouth part called a proboscis that breaks skin and sucks blood from people and animals.

Mosquitoes use their proboscis, or part of their mouth, to cut the skin and get to the capillaries or veins to fill up with blood. According to Elmer Gray, ...

The mosquito pierces your skin with their "proboscis," their feeding mouth part. But the proboscis isn't a single, straight, ...

The mosquito, whose name comes from the Spanish for “small fly”, is a type of insect that belongs to the family Culicidae. There are thousands of species of mosquitoes, but a distinguishing ...

Mosquito is a broad term that refers to the over 3,500 species that live across the globe. Not all of these species bite or suck blood, and even fewer can carry disease, but those that can bite use a ...

Mosquito season is starting to rev up across much of the United States. And that means bug bites. When a mosquito bites you, it pierces the skin using a mouthpart called a proboscis to suck up blood.

Mosquitoes are swarming back into Central Texas after recent storms soaked the region, leaving behind sticky humidity and pockets of standing water.

DEET is not an insecticide. It doesn't kill mosquitoes, but how and why DEET works is still something of a mystery. It’s thought that it may be effective by several different means: it masks ...

Nebraska's first reported case of West Nile virus for the 2025 season was detected in the East Central District Health ...