Mosquito Control

While malaria control strategies have focused on mosquitoes’ nocturnal activity, almost one-third of bites occur while the sun is up, a new study estimates.

Pregnant mosquito females deploy the microbe Elizabethkingia to speed larval growth; the larvae, in turn, help the bacteria outcompete other strains.

Mosquitoes avoid pesticides that they’ve had close encounters with, a fact that may complicate pest management.

Randomized, controlled research conducted in an Indonesian city confirms the reduction in cases seen with previous observational work.

After years of push back, the first batch of Oxitec’s engineered mosquitoes, designed to reduce population numbers, have been released in the Keys.

There have been no reports of health or environmental harm in other locations where genetically modified mosquitoes have been introduced over the last decade.

Researchers use two techniques—Wolbachia infection and irradiation—to suppress reproduction in populations of Asian tiger mosquitoes at two study sites in China.

Researchers can now track the expansion of a resistance mechanism that allows the malaria vector Anopholes funestus to detoxify a key insecticide used on bed nets.

The parasite changes people’s scent, primarily due to an increase in aldehydes.

The US government has approved the deployment of the lab-raised insects to eliminate the Zika- and dengue-transmitting Asian tiger mosquito.

A family’s collection of antique microscope slides became a trove of genetic information about the eradicated European malaria pathogen.

Scientists are getting to closer to developing a technique that can suppress mosquito populations on a continental scale, based on preliminary modeling results.

Researchers report conflicting results.

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Officials postpone the launch of an experimental program aimed at reducing local mosquito populations with genetically modified insects.