Summer brings warmer temperatures and longer days, and of course that means spending more time outdoors. Unfortunately, it ...

By Bobby Bascomb Insect conservation NGO the Xerces Society recently petitioned the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to ...

A clinical trial supported by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) is testing an experimental treatment designed to help people suffering the effects of dengue, a mosquito-borne viral disease.

This works throughout the stages of an insect's life: from egg to larva to pupa to adult. It works with look-alike species. And it works with diverse image qualities and orientations. The bottom line ...

Hopefully, we are doing a little of each — it’s tough to avoid either. Here is the advice I am giving my adult sons. So I decided I would write a few things I want to tell my adult children — great ...

For people with a mosquito bite allergy, also known as "skeeter syndrome," symptoms are more severe than the itchy red bump of a mosquito bite. They can include a rash, large areas of excessive ...

No matter how careful you are about animals in your home, or how much care you take when you are outdoors, animal and insect bites and stings are sometimes unavoidable. Fleas, mites, and chiggers ...

Adult Anopheles coluzzii mosquitoes ... and environmental factors such as the positioning of mosquito swarms relative to sunset, which influenced the number of mating pairs.

If you’re an adult human, odds are you already know a thing or two about tooth regeneration. Around age six, most of us begin to lose baby teeth in a process called eruption, exchanging our ...

Move over bees, MIT researchers have developed a robot insect designed for artificial pollination, laying the groundwork for entirely indoor farms of the future. The robot’s lifelike flapping wings ...

An elderly Townsville man has been hospitalised with dengue fever, marking the region's first breakthrough case of the mosquito-borne virus in five years. There have been just four cases of ...

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