East Africa launches first dedicated mosquito production and research facility in Djibouti, helping to suppress invasive ...

THE GUARDTECH GROUP are doing their bit in the fight against malaria in Djibouti by designing and installing a Cleancube ...

Learn about vampire spiders and their love of human blood, which they're able to salvage from blood-carrying mosquitoes.

Metarhizium robertsii, a pathogenetic soil-dwelling fungus, infects a variety of insects through spores that eventually kill them. Scientists have known that the fungus can spread when a healthy bug ...

The transmission of malaria by the Anopheles cruzii mosquito in the South and Southeast of Brazil was so alarming in the 1940s—with approximately 4,000 cases per 100,000 people—that the disease became ...

Female Aedes mosquitoes signal that copulation can proceed by subtly extending their genitalia. Female mosquitoes that transmit dengue and other diseases are actually in charge during sex, according ...

It was thought that Aedes aegypti could not survive in the Mountain West. But now, a population is thriving in Colorado.

The most dangerous animal in the world just got easier to study—and perhaps defeat one day. Researchers from Rockefeller ...

Amid the preparatory discussions for COP30, which also involve health-related topics, a study contributes to our understanding of the relationship between deforestation and the spread of malaria in ...

Mosquitoes have reached Iceland, a place once thought too harsh for them to survive. Climate change may play a role in this shift.

Iceland was one of the only mosquito-free places in the world, at least according to its records. Not anymore. By Amelia Nierenberg Iceland lost the distinction this month of being one of the last ...