A large international team of researchers has discovered that the mosquitoes that live in London's underground subway evolved ...

For decades, Culex pipiens f. molestus was called the “London Underground Mosquito”. Most people, including scientists, ...

InsectNet -- which is backed by a dataset of 12 million insect images, including many collected by citizen-scientists -- provides identification and predictions for more than 2,500 insect species at ...

Genetic alterations may help mosquitoes adjust to climate change, shifting the distribution of mosquito-borne disease in a ...

The virus that causes eastern equine encephalitis, or EEE, has evolved to infect mosquitoes. To be able to spread between ...

Despite the constant presence of mosquitoes, the risk of disease transmission fluctuates throughout the year between high and low risk months.

In the present study, researchers investigated whether mosquito species in the US have the potential to maintain OROV using both historic (TRVL9760) and recent (240023) viral isolates. OROV 240023 ...

Mosquitoes can survive prolonged droughts by drinking blood, which helps to explain why rates of mosquito-borne illness don't always decline in dry periods. Mosquitoes can survive prolonged ...

Several Indian states are using two species that may harm local ecosystems — one of them banned in some countries ...