Genetic studies have revealed that when male mosquitoes lose their hearing, they also lose their sex lives. The surprising ...

And when a mosquito feeds on our blood, it leaves small annoying bumps on our skin. The feeding process involves the small, flying insect piercing our skin and injecting saliva into it.

At this very moment, the mosquito's saliva is thinning the blood so it won't clot while she feeds. Her saliva also causes that annoying itchiness. Now, only female mosquitoes bite you. They need ...

The scorching summer, it seems, sucked the lifeblood out of mosquitoes, which probably explains their annoying presence so late in the year, say experts. “Recently, I was bitten by a mosquito ...