mosquitoes

From Texas Standard : In Southeast Texas, mosquitoes aren't exactly beloved. So it's curious that biotech company Oxitec is planning to release millions...

Given the choice between an animal and a human, the Aedes aegypti species prefers ... us. A new study explains how that happened.

Scientists are trying to flip the script on control of mosquitoes in an effort to combat dengue fever. Instead of trying to wipe them out, they're infecting them with bacteria.

Timothy C. Winegard has written a well-researched work of narrative nonfiction that offers a history of the world through the role that mosquitoes — and mosquito-borne illnesses — have played in it.

Mosquitoes are among civilization's most influential yet underappreciated killers. We unearth the uneasy truth about their outsized impact on human history.

From Texas Standard: For some Texans, a mosquito bite can cause more than just an itch. From yellow fever to West Nile virus, there's a long history of...

Recent rains and warmer weather are expected to make the local mosquito population explode. Local health officials offered advice on how to fight them…

It's the only repellent that drives mosquitoes away when they come in contact with it. A new study has a theory about why that is.

From Texas Standard : On any given day between May and November, Bethany Bolling and her team of microbiologists at the Texas Department of State Health...

From Texas Standard : West Nile virus made big headlines in Texas in 2012. But the truth is, it probably infects thousands of people here each year,...