Gene editing holds the potential of suppressing mosquito species that carry deadly diseases — and raises ethical questions.

Mosquitos, or mosquitoes (both spellings are allowed according to the Merriam-Webster dictionary) are any members of the Culicidae family. Female ... have a black body with faint white bands ...

Identifying the disease-spreading Aedes mosquitos, known for their black and white stripes ... Dengue mosquitoes are daytime feeders Unlike the Anopheles mosquitoes (which spread malaria) that ...

To combat the deadly diseases spread by mosquitoes, entomologists often turn to the blood-sucking insect’s reproductive life.

Just so you know, Aug. 20 is World Mosquito Day. But it isn’t a day to celebrate mosquitoes. It marks the discovery, made in 1897 by the British Doctor Sir Ronald Ross, that female Anopheles ...

Female mosquitoes ... Several species of Anopheles are responsible for the majority of transmission in Africa, where the disease causes the most morbidity. In Anopheles mosquitoes, levels of ...

Malaria is transmitted to humans and animals by the female Anopheles mosquito. Even though the disease is curable in its early stages, treatment is expensive and hard to deliver to many of the ...

In a paper published Aug. 30 in the journal Current Biology, the team revealed that when a male Anopheles coluzzii mosquito hears the sound of female-specific wingbeats, his vision becomes active.

When a male Anopheles coluzzii mosquito picks up the sound of female-specific wingbeats, his vision becomes active. These findings are detailed in a study published August 30 in the journal ...

Female offspring are targeted as only female Anopheles mosquitoes can spread malaria. Another solution is to use natural predators such as copepods, which are a type of crustation. Their food ...

Malaria, responsible for hundreds of thousands of deaths each year worldwide, is caused by a parasite transmitted through the salivary glands of female Anopheles mosquitoes. Understanding the ...

But governments are wary. A female Anopheles mosquito, marked with fluorescent powder, under a microscope in a field laboratory on the island of Príncipe. Only female mosquitoes bite humans ...