Most female mosquitoes cannot produce eggs without a blood meal. Male mosquitoes do not bite people and animals." So it seems my blood is essential for future mosquito generations.

In certain insects, like mosquitoes, successful mating prevents females from seeking other partners. And, if the female mates with a sterile male, she doesn’t actually produce offspring. In theory, ...

For male mosquitoes–who do not bite–the high-pitched buzzing of females is siren call that signals it is time to mate. However, there is even more to that signal than scientists first realized.

Researchers from the Harvard School of Public Health and the University of Perugia in Italy discovered a male sex hormone that affects egg production in Anopheles gambiae, a species of mosquito. This ...

Native Hawaiian honeycreeper birds are being wiped out by avian malaria. Scientists think they can battle the problem by ...

Thousands of drone-delivered mosquitoes are being dropped into Hawaii on a mission to help save an almost extinct species of ...

In a paper published Aug. 30 in the journal Current Biology, the team revealed that when a male Anopheles coluzzii mosquito hears the sound of female-specific wingbeats, his vision becomes active.

RASCOE: Is this a better way of reducing the mosquito population than, you know, using insecticides or releasing genetically-modified male mosquitoes? BIRHANIE: No, this is just an additional tool.

Batches of irradiated male mosquitoes are slated for release Wednesday in Lake Elsinore with the goal of pairing the modified insects with as many females as possible to kill off the overall mosquito ...

Skeeter syndrome is a treatable allergic reaction to mosquito bites. Symptoms include swelling, soreness, redness, itching, ...

The mosquito buzzing that you find annoying and disgusting is irresistible to a male mosquito.

A mosquito’s physiology reveals just how important hearing is to these insects. Male mosquitoes have the most auditory neurons of any known insect, Montell explained. Females have half as many.