Authorities in one of the Philippines' most densely-populated urban centres are offering a cash reward for mosquitoes in an ...

Given all the options that Aedes females have in urban areas, how do these cosmopolitan mosquitoes find the perfect site to lay their eggs? Scientists previously thought this was a solitary act ...

Do you know what it is? It's a baby crocodile! Crocodiles lay eggs too. Mosquitoes lay their eggs in little rafts on the surface of the water. The mother looks after the eggs until they're ready ...

When the mosquito bites a victim ... the ground and hatch waiting for the next bare foot to pass by. But some egg-laying parasites go more than just skin deep. Tapeworms, for example, invade ...

The US designed and manufactured equipment capture an average of 1.500 female mosquitoes per day and if we take into account that each of them can lay 300 eggs in a day, it means the robots are ...

female mosquitoes draw blood from a host to fuel egg production. About four days later, the mosquitoes lay their eggs and seek another blood meal to repeat the process. But during droughts ...

“That’s one of the things that allows them to lay eggs without a blood meal.” This ability to survive and breed in and around houses could have eventually helped these mosquitoes to colonize ...

Female mosquitoes require blood to produce eggs, so they bite humans. Each female mosquito can lay multiple batches of eggs during its lifetime, and often Aedes aegypti take several blood meals ...

The idea’s still the same as before: let mosquitoes lay their eggs in the standing waters of tanks and swamps, then disturb the water with vibrations so the larvae on the surface can’t breathe.

“Now that the temperature has cooled down, mosquitoes may be more active in laying eggs.” The lifespan of the Aedes albopictus ranges from two weeks to a month. They lay eggs several times ...