Brevard is releasing sterilized male mosquitoes to combat dengue fever, Zika and other mosquito-borne illnesses.

A drug that makes human blood lethal to mosquitoes also acts as a potent contact insecticide absorbed through the feet, providing a promising new approach to combating insecticide resistance. A new ...

By Milliam MurigiBy Milliam MurigiAcross Africa, new-generation bed nets are being rolled out to fight malaria and tackle growing insecticide resistance.Unlike the standard insecticide- treated nets ...

Mosquitoes spread deadly diseases but eliminating them raises big ethical and environmental questions. This video explores ...

A team of scientists from the University of Maryland (UMD) and Burkina Faso have conducted the first outside-of-a-laboratory trial of a transgenic method for combating malaria. The method, which kills ...

Treating baby wraps with insect repellent could be an effective and scalable way to protect young children in Africa from ...

With the first West Nile virus case in Kern County this year, now is a good time to work on reducing the mosquito population in Bakersfield and one simple way to do that was not mentioned in the ...