Mosquito-borne diseases kill more than 700,000 people every year, according to the World Health Organization, and the ...

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

Mosquitoes carrying the virus were first identified in Colorado in 2003. That year resulted in the most human cases of West Nile in state history, with 2,948. Sixty-six people died. In 2023, the state ...

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 ...

Releases of sterile male mosquitoes in L.A. County drove down the pest population, studies found. But homeowners would need to pay to bring them to a wider area.

Releases of sterile male mosquitoes in L.A. County drove down the pest population, studies found. But homeowners would need to pay to bring them to a wider area.

Mosquitoes, it turned out, have voices in the middle ranges of human hearing (frequencies of 250 to 1,500 cycles per second). Females bellow; male voices are thin and high-pitched.

Culex (Culex) maxi Dyar is described in the adult, pupal and larval stages, and the male genitalia and parts of the fourth-instar larva are illustrated. The larva is described for the first time. The ...

Health officials have warned people in recently flooded areas of the country to protect against mosquito-borne diseases after a new case of Japanese encephalitis was detected in NSW.

Regarding Culex mosquitoes, Dr Md Emdadul Hoque, health officer of DNCC, said they have strengthened anti-mosquito drives in areas from where complaints were received.

A single female Culex mosquito lays 100–200 eggs at a time. Even if 50 per cent of them die, millions of mosquitoes can emerge from one stormwater drain, especially in suburban areas with open ...

Kochi: In Ernakulam district, particularly Kochi city, Culex mosquito density ranges from 50 to 70 per hour, according to recent health department data from their filariasis monitoring programme.