A mosquito larva entombed in amber for about 99 million years is now the oldest known of its kind, according to a new study. The fossil comes from Kachin in northern Myanmar and likely formed when ...
In experiments, researchers showed that the disease-spreading insects couldn’t resist the sweet smell of a fungus that infected and killed them.
The most dangerous animal in the world just got easier to study—and perhaps defeat one day.Researchers from Rockefeller University's Laboratory of ...
Iceland recorded its first verified population of mosquitoes. The cold-tolerant species Culiseta annulata survived Iceland’s ...
Climate change and human-made shelters have created survivable habitat for the cold-adapted mosquito species Culiseta ...
The female mosquito only mates once in her lifetime, and yet she can develop many hundreds of eggs from this single event.
Loopworm’s Ankit Alok Bagaria explains why silkworm pupae could transform pet food as a sustainable, nutritious and scalable ...
Local bat populations are getting attention in the Phoenix area due to a recent mosquito surge ahead of Halloween.
The weirdest-looking moths on Earth are so strange, they look like they flew straight out of a vivid dream — or a nightmare.