Malaria cases have skyrocketed in Djibouti in recent years. Rachel Schraer reports on a British company helping produce ...

Scientists use CRISPR to create a Genetic Sexing Strain of mosquitoes. Male and female mosquitoes can now be separated easily ...

The findings might overturn a widely held belief that only females pose a disease risk to people, though more research is ...

Romance is a complex affair in humans. There’s personality, appearance, seduction, all manner of physical and social cues. Mosquitoes are much more blunt. Mating occurs for a few seconds in midair.

Researchers have developed a new "color-coded" genetic method that makes it easy to distinguish male and female mosquitoes.

Instead of creating new types of pesticides or machines to eliminate the abundance of disease-carrying mosquitoes, a group of researchers from Australia have engineered 'Toxic Male' mosquitoes to ...

Some animals, from puffins and swans to prairie voles, are known to mate for life. For female mosquitoes, mating typically occurs once in their lifetime—lasting under 30 seconds—before the couple go ...

Female mosquitoes that transmit dengue and other diseases are actually in charge during sex, according to a study that challenges the long-held view that they are passive participants. Leslie Vosshall ...

Mosquitoes are much more blunt. Mating occurs for a few seconds in midair. And all it takes to woo a male is the sound of a female’s wingbeats. Imagine researchers’ surprise when a single change ...