Learn about vampire spiders and their love of human blood, which they're able to salvage from blood-carrying mosquitoes.

Sourced from an Australian plant toxin, nitisinone can turn a mosquito's everyday lunch into a fatal last meal. Mosquitoes may have just met their match: A prescription drug already used to treat a ...

Scientists have recently made a breakthrough by converting the delightful aroma of flowers into a potent mosquito killer.

The DC area has seen rain all week and we know with the mixture of rain and warm weather is a recipe for mosquitoes popping up in the masses. So our Verify team checked out a buzzing rumor about a ...

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 ...

Some people feel like they are so-called "mosquito magnets" because they seem to get more than their fair share of bites. There are many popular theories for why someone might be a preferred snack, ...

If you feel like you’re the victim of itchy mosquito bites more often than others, it may not be all in your head. Mosquitoes primarily rely on carbon dioxide to locate their targets, Swiger said.

Female Aedes mosquitoes signal that copulation can proceed by subtly extending their genitalia. Female mosquitoes that ...

The female mosquito only mates once in her lifetime, and yet she can develop many hundreds of eggs from this single event.