Mosquitos don’t just cause annoying, itchy bites — they can also spread potentially life-threatening infectious diseases, like eastern equine encephalitis, West Nile virus and dengue fever. At least ...

In experiments, researchers showed that the disease-spreading insects couldn’t resist the sweet smell of a fungus that infected and killed them.

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For starters, a mosquito can transmit pathogens at the probing stage, which happens before it starts feeding. "It kind of ...

The most dangerous animal in the world just got easier to study—and perhaps defeat one day. Researchers from Rockefeller ...