Scientists have a radical new plan for controlling mosquito numbers and fighting malaria: lacing human blood with a drug that ...

This particular female glows green due to a diet containing fluorescein, which appears green under ultraviolet light and reveals the hemolymph system of the mosquito. It’s important to note that ...

“[The paper] shows that details of a blood sucking mosquito can be nicely preserved in a medium other than amber,” paleontologist George Poinar of Oregon State University, who was not involved in this ...

There are various approaches being utilized to lower mosquito numbers and the risk of malaria. One such method involves the use of the antiparasitic drug ivermectin. When mosquitoes consume blood ...

A drug for a rare disease makes human blood deadly to mosquitoes and could help in the fight against malaria, researchers have found. Several methods are currently used to reduce mosquito numbers ...

Entomologist and wildlife photographer Gil Wizen spent four years trying to capture the perfect image of an iridescent blood-sucking mosquito. His persistence - and risks - paid off as his photo: ...

Fortunately for humans, however, a team of researchers has recently identified a medication that could curb mosquito populations, controlling their spread of malaria. Revealing their results in a ...

The mosquito must take its blood meal during the period of viremia ... new mosquitoes only develop when the container is filled with water. This adaptation has made it very difficult to eliminate ...

A new study by the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine has revealed that the blood of people who have taken nitisinone, a drug used to treat hypertyrosinemia, acts as a 'mosquito-killing poison.' ...