mosquitoes

People with more carboxylic acids in their body odor are more attractive to mosquitoes, a study finds.

As alternatives to insecticides, Omar Akbari uses sophisticated genetic engineering methods to solve the world’s mosquito problems.

A study suggests that pathogens affecting other species can indirectly harm human health.

Neurons in mosquito antennae can express more than one olfactory receptor at a time, a redundancy that likely ensures they don’t lose a potential host’s scent.

Of the pathogens known to have infected humans, more than half may cause more widespread disease as a result of rising temperatures, precipitation changes, or other climate-related factors, a study finds.

Flavivirus infections alter the skin microbiome of mice to increase the production of a sweet-smelling compound that attracts the viruses’ insect vectors, a study finds.

While malaria control strategies have focused on mosquitoes’ nocturnal activity, almost one-third of bites occur while the sun is up, a new study estimates.

A brain area of Aedes aegypti responds specifically to components of human sebum, a study finds.

Southern Australia has recorded its first-ever cases of the disease in an outbreak that has so far killed three people.

Pregnant mosquito females deploy the microbe Elizabethkingia to speed larval growth; the larvae, in turn, help the bacteria outcompete other strains.

Mosquitoes avoid pesticides that they’ve had close encounters with, a fact that may complicate pest management.

Long lambasted as junk DNA or genomic parasites, transposable elements turn out to be contributors to adaptation.

Warmer temperatures are likely to increase the prevalence of the mosquito-borne disease in many places, but not all.

Randomized, controlled research conducted in an Indonesian city confirms the reduction in cases seen with previous observational work.

After years of push back, the first batch of Oxitec’s engineered mosquitoes, designed to reduce population numbers, have been released in the Keys.

The Centenary University professor studies the far-reaching effects of changes in the gut bacteria of mosquitos and other species.

Aedes scapularis is already established on the peninsula, and researchers predict that its population will continue to spread.

In both Drosophila and mosquitoes, protection lasts for generations following a single maternal exposure to positive-sense single-stranded RNA viruses.

A study explains how Zika was present among mosquitoes in Africa for decades without causing the harm to human health seen outside the continent in recent years.