Fact: Only bites from an infected female mosquito can transmit dengue or malaria. For dengue, a mosquito must have previously ...

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While often overlooked, insects pose significant threats to human health, transmitting deadly diseases like malaria and ...

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The numbers are staggering: mosquito-borne diseases are blamed for over 700,000 deaths every year, according to the World ...

Long-polluted waterways near Chicago are part of a system of natural and manmade barriers keeping invasive crustaceans at bay ...

Summer is fast approaching, which means mosquito season is back in full swing. So how can you avoid being bitten, to bypass the annoying itching? We asked Dr Prasad Paradkar to share his top tips.

ALTOS DE CAMPANA NATIONAL PARK, Panama — Brian Gratwicke’s lunch box was full of frogs. Kneeling on the muddy rainforest floor, the biologist opened his red Coleman cooler and scooped one up. It was a ...

The world's climate leaders are conceding that Earth's warming will shoot past a hard limit they set a decade ago in hopes of keeping the planet out of a danger zone. But they're not conceding defeat.

People who live in the tropical areas where Aedes aegypti mosquitoes reside have probably known for centuries, or even millennia–thanks to their itchy bites–that the mosquitoes hunt most often at dawn ...

It’s bound to happen at a summer picnic, a peaceful walk in the woods or simply sitting in your backyard… a mosquito targets your blood for its next meal. You’ve been bitten. But how do mosquitoes ...