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 ...

Fact checked by Sarah ScottMedically reviewed by Kimberly Brown, MDIf it seems like mosquitoes bite you more than other ...

When a mosquito bites, its saliva acts like an anaesthetic, preventing you from feeling it. But it's only female mosquitoes that bite, and they do it because blood contains both nutrition for her ...

Mosquitoes mate on the basis of their hearing power while flying in mid-air. They hear the attractive wingbeats of female ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Mosquitoes are also evolving to resist insecticides. Only female mosquitoes bite and drink blood.Credit: That’s why Oxitec, which grew out of Oxford University, has developed a line of self ...