many are looking for ways to keep themselves safe. The virus is primarily spread by the Aedes mosquito and can also be transmitted through sexual contact and blood transfusion. Cancel anytime.

Mosquito season is starting to rev up across ... So you might want to pause summer vacation planning and consider what to look for in repellents, which keep bugs away from you, and insecticides ...

This story appears in the August 2016 issue of National Geographic magazine ... We’ve known for more than a century that a mosquito’s bite can pass on brutal disease: Zika is the virus ...

While the awkward-looking bugs bear a resemblance to mosquitoes (even nicknamed mosquito hawks), that's where their similarities end. Unlike their blood-sucking cousins, crane flies pose no threat ...

Some of the National Mosquito Collection specimens are frozen ... curation and that we respond quickly to people requesting to look at the specimens. Scientists around the world rely on our ...