Drones can quickly deploy to avoid Hawaiʻi’s unpredictable weather. Scientists use drones to release millions of specialized ...

Male Culex tarsalis and Aedes aegypti mosquitoes, which are normally disinterested in blood, will take blood meals when humidity is low and they can’t get sugar, researchers report October 8 in ...

Mosquito-borne diseases kill more than 700,000 people every year, according to the World Health Organization, and the mosquitos that spread the disease are difficult to control.

Male Culex species mosquito. Source - Volkmar Becher, Public Domain CC0 1.0 Male Culex species mosquito. Source - Volkmar Becher, Public Domain CC0 1.0 Another new mosquito species has made its ...

They’re using drones to drop thousands of lab-reared, non-biting male mosquitoes engineered to carry a bacteria ... biologists are most concerned about are the southern house mosquito (Culex ...

Culex species mosquito eggs. Credit: CDC To get this detailed information the research team worked with a team of graduate and undergraduate students who isolated as many as 200 male mosquitoes ...

Looking more specifically at the US, Culex mosquitoes – namely, the common house mosquito – are a big target for control efforts. These mosquitoes prefer feeding on birds, which is where they ...

Mosquito-borne diseases are those that are transmitted to people through the bite of an infected mosquito. The diseases spread by mosquitoes can be caused by a parasite, as in the case of malaria, or ...

Anopheles carries malaria, Culex carries West Nile, and the Aedes genus alone includes mosquitoes that can carry yellow fever, chikungunya, dengue and Zika, among others. And we may not need them ...

Adult female Culex mosquito taking a blood meal. CDC. ... the authors worked with a team of students who were able to isolate as many as 200 male mosquitoes from a larger population of bugs.

Female culex mosquitoes lay one egg at a time, but 100 to 300 in total, rafting together in stagnant water. ... “Male mosquitoes don't bite, they don’t blood feed.

Additionally, learning more about Culex sperm motility may have implications for improving fertility in humans. Cardullo has long studied mammalian sperm, in the hopes of developing a male ...