Genetic alterations may help mosquitoes adjust to climate change, shifting the distribution of mosquito-borne disease in a ...

Crane flies have snout-like mouths, while mosquitoes have piercing, tube-like mouths and scales on their wings. Leatherjackets, or crane fly larvae, burrow into the soil and feed on your lawn ...

When the containers fill with water, mosquito larvae hatch from the eggs. After developing through four larval stages, the larvae metamorphose into pupas. Like the larval stage, the pupal stage is ...

Aedes aegypti mosquitoes, carriers of many devastating diseases including ... could be serving as a defensive symbiotic for the developing larvae.” She says that such mutualistic relationships have ...

Chemical control involves the use of insecticides to kill immature or adult mosquitoes. New chemical, biological, and genetic approaches are being developed and may provide promising alternatives ...