Mosquito Control started in Golden Gate City but plans to release sterile mosquitoes weekly for the next 28 weeks, through ...

Citizen science project ‘Insect Investigators’ takes scientists to regional schools to teach students to track and identify ...

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

Hotter temperatures may render natural insect repellents less effective against mosquitoes, according to a new study. Researchers found that a pain receptor called TRPA1 becomes less sensitive in ...

Three of the four stages of the mosquito life cycle take place in water – eggs are laid in pools of stagnant water, which hatch into larvae and pupae which develop within them. A 2020 research on ...

Three-year-old Nethmi Sehansa* from Dematagoda, a suburb of Colombo, succumbed to dengue in May 2023. Her parents and elder ...

Here, we demonstrate how a simple theoretical framework used in conservation biology—evolutionary rescue models—can be used to investigate the potential for climate adaptation in these taxa, using ...

Department of International Health, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States Dengue virus (DENV) is a mosquito-borne virus with a significant human ...

They play an important role in ecosystems serving as predators of insects, consuming hundreds of mosquitoes a day ... egg, larva, pupa and adult. Females lay their eggs in or near water with ...

The Department of Health (DOH) and Davao City Health Office (CHO) launched the "Alas Kwatro Kontra Mosquito Drive" in Barangay Buhangin to combat dengue by urging residents to clean up and destroy ...

The British company Oxitec, in partnership with Australia's CSIRO, has announced plans to release genetically modified (GM) mosquitoes in Queensland. The initiative aims to reduce transmission of ...