mosquitoes

It's not a shark. It's not a lion. It's not a snake. And all you'll need is some pipe cleaners, sunglasses and gossamer wings.

The heat wave may have slowed daytime attacks by mosquitos on humans in the San Antonio area, but their bites still pose a danger at night.

Thanks to a relatively mild winter and April’s above-normal rainfall, the pesky bugs are swarming the city early in high numbers.

In Guatemala's mosquito-plagued lowlands, researchers use a novel tool — they call it an "insectazooka" — to suck up mosquitoes. Then they peer at the blood meal, searching for unknown pathogens.

Mosquitoes are a fact of life in Texas, and the battle against the pesky biting insects is never ending. But there are some new weapons on the horizon. Zach Adleman is an associate professor of entomology at Texas A&M University.

Bexar County crews are cranking up chemical foggers mounted on the backs of pickup trucks to kill mosquitoes in unincorporated areas.

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.