When a mosquito pierces your skin, it does more than cause a fleeting moment of discomfort—it sets off a chain reaction ...

Discover how mosquitoes adapt to droughts by biting more frequently to stay hydrated, increasing disease spread.

Scratching an itch is almost irresistible — even though it can make a problem worse. Now researchers have discovered a ...

Cathrine Abbott-Coetzee believed she had a relatively harmless mosquito bite but within two days, her health deteriorated and ...

The method involves using low-dose X-rays to render male mosquitoes unable to reproduce. Male mosquitoes don't bite and won’t have contact with people or spread disease.

While there may be fewer mosquitoes, those that survive bite more often. "We're finding that mosquitoes bite people more than we imagined, unfortunately," Holmes said. And mosquitoes appear to be ...