Dr. Jorge Rey is the FMCA president and professor at the University of Florida’s Medical Entomology Laboratory.

As the Director of the Florida Medical Entomology Laboratory at the University of Florida, I am fortunate to have access to world-class scientific minds and cu ...

Professor Giorgos Christophides discusses the major research currently underway – If a small number of modified mosquitoes ...

Hotter temperatures may render natural insect repellents less effective against mosquitoes, according to a new study. Hotter temperatures may render natural insect repellents less effective ...

A science museum curator who grew up in Orlando talks about how federal science funding fueled her own life journey and so ...

From the hidden world of electrostatic ecology, where insects harness static electricity for survival, to the engineering ...

"When a dragonfly hunts, it hovers perfectly still and positions itself between its prey and a shadow cast behind it by, say, ...

Mosquito antennae are complex structures that transduce sound into electrical signals, which are then zapped to the brain. Different mosquito species have antennae structured to pick up different ...

Despite lacking traditional ears, mosquitoes rely on their antennae ... a professor of biological sciences in Purdue's College of Science. "Understanding how these structures work is the first ...

(via Be Smart) Imagine the scale of raindrops if you were the size of a small bird. Or mosquito. Flying through a drizzle should be deadly! Like flying through falling cars and boulders. And yet it’s ...

A team of more than 30 researchers analyzed 12.6 million butterfly sightings across 76,000 population surveys. They found ...