Faced with a new mosquito species that could transmit disease in Minnesota, state health and mosquito control officials are urging residents to rid their property of water-holding containers. The ...

Ever wonder why sometimes at a backyard party, the person next to you is getting bitten by mosquitoes, but not you? Or not. Mosquitoes can smell their dinner from an impressive distance of up to ...

They spread to 43 ZIP codes in 2023. “It just exploded all over the valley,” Raman said. As Aedes aegypti spread, the district received more mosquito complaints. The district had 99 complaints ...

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They sequenced the DNA from all the mosquitoes that survived to adulthood and compared this with the genome of a control mosquito. They identified more than 500,000 single nucleotide mutations, ...

While the types of mosquitoes that spread these diseases are currently less common in these locations, the population at risk of these diseases will increase by as much as 4.7 billion by 2070.

Mosquitoes can survive prolonged droughts by drinking blood, which helps to explain why rates of mosquito-borne illness don't always decline in dry periods. Mosquitoes can survive prolonged ...