Not all mosquitoes are to blame, however. Every bloodsucking malaria vector comes from those within the group Anopheles leucosphyrus, which encompasses a comparatively small portion of the planet’s ...

Mosquitoes are the deadliest animal on the planet, killing hundreds of thousands of people every year by transmitting malaria ...

Mosquitoes have been biting people for more than a million years and probably much longer. An analysis of 38 modern mosquitoes’ DNA suggests an ancestral mosquito species developed a preference for ...

In Southeast Asia, mosquitoes in the Anopheles genus range from species that prefer humans to species that favor other primates, such as gibbons and orangutans. By sequencing DNA from 11 mosquito ...

The preference of some mosquitoes in the Anopheles leucosphyrus (Leucosphyrus) group—including those that transmit ...

The most dangerous animal to humans? You’ve probably encountered it. In fact, you’ve probably been attacked by it. And now ...

A perfect storm of conditions is making mosquitoes, and the diseases they carry, a big threat to human health.

Vector Control inspectors said the mosquito breeding in Orange County neighborhoods is the worst that they've seen in the past five years.

New research shows most Hawaiian forest birds carry avian malaria, fueling widespread transmission and raising extinction risks for native wildlife.

From summer evenings to global disease prevention, mosquito repellents are a daily defense for billions of people, yet until ...

Southern California has experienced significant temperature fluctuations in the last two weeks of February 2026, shifting from cooler, active weather to intense, summer-like heat—a pattern experts ...