Mosquitoes, it turned out, have voices in the middle ranges of human hearing (frequencies of 250 to 1,500 cycles per second). Females bellow; male voices are thin and high-pitched. The ...

Using an advanced electron accelerator, the regional government-funded Biological Pest Control Centre in Valencia successfully sterilises and releases about 45,000 male mosquitoes weekly.

Since a large outbreak began in 2023, more case reports of severe complications of infection in pregnant women and at least ...

Children and adolescents were at higher risk for new-onset mild and moderate chronic kidney disease from 2020 to 2023.

Imrul Kayes Chowdhury, chief health officer of DNCC, claimed that both Aedes and Culex mosquito populations have decreased over the past month. As a result, the number of dengue cases in Dhaka has ...

With a grant award from the American Mosquito Control Association Research Fund, Utah State University ecologist Norah Saarman and her students are using morphology, DNA testing and machine learning ...

OC Vector hopes that by utilizing a sterile insect technique that the sterilized males will outcompete the non-sterilized ...

99 per cent of the mosquitoes collected were of the Culex species – also known as Culicines.” In the survey, only 0.3 per cent were Anopheles. The Aedes type were equally very low in numbers.

So far this year, no mosquitoes in the area have tested positive for disease, but surveillance efforts are already underway. The district expects to detect West Nile virus in native Culex ...

Among these pesky fliers is the Northern House Mosquito, Culex pipiens, which can spread West Nile Virus and St. Louis encephalitis in humans, as well as avian malaria in birds and heartworm ...

The strategy shows promise in significantly decreasing mosquito populations and disease transmission. The male mosquitoes were genetically modified to introduce a gene that causes female offspring ...