Mosquitoes are the latest cause of major concern for residents of the Vasai-Virar area where the civic body claims it is ...

Mosquitoes are able to survive prolonged droughts by drinking blood, which helps to explain how their populations quickly ...

Collier Mosquito Control District launched a pilot program to target Aedes aegypti mosquitoes in Golden Gate City using sterile insect technique.

Hi, it’s Karoline in Singapore. As countries look to fight the dengue menace, some are drawing inspiration from the idiom ...

Male insects carrying venom proteins transferred these to disease-spreading females, reducing their lifespan and providing a ...

Australian researchers engineered a new way to hinder the reproduction of disease-carrying mosquitoes using the TMT.

By targeting the female mosquitoes themselves rather than their offspring, TMT is the first biocontrol technology that could ...

Scientists at Macquarie University have developed the Toxic Male Technique (TMT), a biological pest control method to combat disease-carrying mosquitoes. Genetically engineered male mosquitoes ...

Mosquitoes looking to mate in Australia are about to have the worst sex of their lives – thanks to genetic modifications ...

Genetically modified mosquitoes (GMMs) are mosquitoes that have had a new gene introduced that doesn't occur naturally. For ...

"Toxic male technique" genetically engineers male insects to produce insect-specific venom proteins in their semen.

A genetic biocontrol method which reduces the lifespan of female insects could work as fast as pesticides to reduce ...