Mouth larvae are parasites that hatch and live inside the oral cavities of human and animal hosts. These pests can cause a dangerous infection called oral myiasis. This disorder rarely occurs in ...

Paleontologists have found three lacewing larvae with large forward-directed stemmata (eyes in holometabolans) in 100-million-year-old Kachin amber from Myanmar. These specimens demonstrate the ...

Lastly, we investigate the consequences of mosquito climate adaptation on disease transmission using Aedes aegypti-transmitted dengue virus in Northern Brazil as a case study. The approach outlined ...

A few Aedes aegypti, Culex quinquefasciatus, Toxorhynchites rutilus and Corethrella ... There was a linear relationship of numbers of pupae to numbers of eggs + larvae collected at lower densities of ...

Caused by filarial worms (e.g., Wuchereria bancrofti, Brugia timori and Brugia malayi) and transmitted by mosquitoes (belonging to the genus Culex, Aedes, Anopheles and Mansonia), the disease mainly ...

the Aedes can also transmit chikungunya, Rift Valley fever, yellow fever and zika. The Anopheles species on the other hand can trasmit malaria and the O’nyong’nyong virus; while the Culex ...

the Culex mosquito population will keep increasing until March. For all latest news, follow The Daily Star's Google News channel. They also stressed the importance of targeting Aedes mosquitoes ...

PETALING JAYA: It’s been raining in the Klang Valley, and there have been hot spells in between – and that’s the perfect climate for the hatching of Aedes mosquito larvae, say experts.

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

In the water, the young mosquitoes are particularly vulnerable to being eaten by dragonfly larvae, fish and other predators ... found that one type of mosquito known as Culex – which carries West Nile ...

Five species of mosquitoes (Aedes aegypti, Aedes albopictus, Aedes flavopictus, Aedes japonicus, and Culex quinquefasciatus) were considered a potential threat to both human health and economies. It ...