Romance is a complex affair in humans. 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.

Scientists at Virginia Tech may have just made it easier to fight the world's deadliest animal: the mosquito. Only female mosquitoes bite because they need nutrients from blood to develop eggs. That ...

Garden enthusiast Heather Hacking loves when you share what’s growing on. Reach out at [email protected], and ...

A mosquito manufacturing factory in Campinas, in the Brazilian State of São Paulo, is relying on two new complementary ...

The mosquito buzzing that you find annoying and disgusting is irresistible to a male mosquito. The mosquito buzzing that you find annoying and disgusting is irresistible to a male mosquito. He follows ...

Sterilized male Aedes mosquitoes — which don't bite — swarm around the face of vector ecologist Jennifer Castellon as they are released in the city of Rancho Cucamonga in April 2024. The goal was to ...

Mosquitoes are much more blunt. Mating occurs for a few seconds in midair. And all it takes to woo a male is the sound of a female’s wingbeats. Imagine researchers’ surprise when a single change ...

A battle is underway against an invasive mosquito behind a recent surge in the local spread of dengue fever in Southern California — and officials may have unlocked a powerful tool to help win the day ...