Research led by scientists from the University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB) found that mosquitoes use infrared ...

It stick its proboscis through your skin, piercing a capillary. Its saliva (mosquito spit) contains an anti-coagulant that prevents your blood from clotting, enabling a rapid withdrawal by means ...

In optimal conditions, most adult mosquito species can live up to two to three weeks, and in some studies, some female ...

It’s hurricane season, that time of the year where Texas weather can be all over the place and can change in an instant.

Aug. 13, 2024 — Black soldier flies are now commercially used to consume organic waste -- but genetic modifications proposed by bioscientists could see the insects digesting a wider variety of ...

The Jakarta Health Service has assured that Wolbachia bacteria do not transmit from Aedes aegypti mosquitoes to humans or ...

It’s hurricane season, that time of the year where Texas weather can be all over the place and can change in an instant. In ...

Jennifer White, a New York state epidemiologist, has a reminder as summer’s end approaches: “It may be pumpkin spice season, but it’s not the end of mosquito season.” August and ...

Female mosquitoes need blood to lay eggs. When they land on your skin in search of yours, they inject saliva that contains proteins using “little serrated blades in the proboscis”— their ...

There have been a dozen confirmed cases of dengue in Hawaiʻi so far this year. All were found in residents returning from ...

Passengers aboard a Volaris flight were visited by a swarm of flying bugs last week — the second time in nearly a year that a plane with the same airline has been invaded by insects. The bugs ...

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