They began simply, smooth and round, but over 300 million years, insect eggs have become as varied as the places where insects reign. Some eggs resemble dirt. Others resemble plants. When you find ...

In addition to the usual staples – bread, fruit, meat and vegetables – Brazilians can now add dried mosquito eggs to their ...

Female mosquitoes require the nutrients (mainly vitamins) in blood to produce eggs. Mosquitoes feed primarily on vertebrates including humans and other mammals, as well as birds, reptiles, and others.

The proper scientific name for one of the eggs is an “ootheca.” “Oothecae have convergently evolved several times in several insect groups,” the study introduction contends. It goes on to ...

Researchers at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, Texas, have discovered that female mosquitoes can transmit the Zika virus to their eggs and offspring. The researchers wanted to ...

The capture of the eggs laid by the Aedes Aegypty female mosquito is collected in plastic recipients. To combat the situation city government authorities have ordered ten daily fumigations in ...

Why, then, do mosquitoes bite humans? Female mosquitoes require blood to produce eggs, so they bite humans. Each female mosquito can lay multiple batches of eggs during its lifetime, and often ...

“Now that the temperature has cooled down, mosquitoes may be more active in laying eggs.” The lifespan of the Aedes albopictus ranges from two weeks to a month. They lay eggs several times ...

mosquitoes have fewer opportunities to lay eggs and cannot develop through their aquatic life stages. Source reduction can be effective when performed regularly, especially when members of a ...

including a network of traps placed at UK borders that detect mosquito eggs. The Scottish government says it also funds research through the Animal and Plant Health Agency. Dr Phin says there now ...

including a network of traps placed at UK borders that detect mosquito eggs. This would need to be expanded in the worst-case scenario, says Dr Jolyon Medlock, from the UKHSA. If the insects go on ...