When female mosquitoes feed, they don't seem to mind a crowd because lots of carbon dioxide usually means there's food. They were thought to be more solitary, however, when laying eggs.

Mosquitoes have sex while flying in mid-air and the males rely on hearing to chase down a female, based on her attractive wingbeats. The researchers did an experiment, altering a genetic pathway ...

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A British company wants to release genetically modified mosquitoes to wipe out an aggressive, disease-causing species ...

Once released, they mate with wild female mosquitoes — resulting in eggs that fail to hatch. Since male mosquitoes neither bite nor suck any blood, they can be released over an extended period ...

This innovative method could potentially lead to a decline in mosquito populations and reduce the spread of these diseases. Female mosquitoes are the ones that spread diseases to people ...

Zika virus is transmitted primarily through the bite of an infected female mosquito. Mosquitoes become infected when they bite a person who is infected with the virus. The virus then replicates and ...

Infected mosquitoes can continue transmitting the dengue virus to healthy people for the rest of their life spans, generally a three- to four-week period. Both male and female mosquitoes feed on ...