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 ...

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 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, ...

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

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.

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 ...

A male mosquito’s proboscis – its elongated feeding-tube mouth – is not able to pierce skin, unlike a female mosquito’s proboscis. But that might not be the only reason they drink blood.

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 ...

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 ...

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

When a mosquito bites you, it pierces the skin using a special mouthpart (proboscis) to suck up blood. As the mosquito is feeding on your blood, it injects saliva into your skin, according to the ...