No one likes the idea of being bitten by a mosquito, especially if that pesky pest is also carrying around viruses as deadly as yellow fever, dengue and Zika. But what if you could eradicate the ...

The Metropolitan Mosquito Control District has started its annual helicopter missions to treat wetlands across the area in an effort to control the mosquito population. Missions began Monday, with dry ...

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Life has found a way. In what sounds like the plot to a Syfy channel original movie, a plan to curb a mosquito population has backfired spectacularly, making the disease-carriers even more resilient ...

Scientists are proposing a new insecticide strategy: mosquito birth control. This is an Inside Science story. Scientists searching for environmentally friendly ways to fight the menace of mosquitoes ...

ORLANDO, Fla., June 18 (UPI) --The Florida Keys is close to adding a new weapon to help control a mosquito-borne disease -- genetically modified mosquitoes that produce dead offspring. Outbreaks of ...

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va (WVEC) — Mosquito control workers have officially started trapping the pesky insects, eventually testing them for West Nile Virus. There were 23 cases of the virus reported last ...