#Culicidae

Author: Aimee Cunningham / Source: Science News For 40 years, they’ve held the front line in Florida’s fight against mosquito-borne diseases. And it turns out that the chickens standing sentinel in cities, marshes, woodlands and residential backyards are clucking good at their job. Last year,

Author: Susan Milius / Source: Science News There are no teensy cups. But a urine test for wild mosquitoes has for the first time proved it can give an early warning that local pests are spreading diseases. Mosquito traps remodeled with a pee-collecting card picked up telltale genetic traces of

Author: Susan Milius / Source: Science News Geneticists have found a scent-sniffer protein molecule in mosquito antennae that — if somehow jammed — might leave a bloodsucker confused about whether we’re human enough to bite. Aedes aegypti mosquitoes, which can spread Zika and dengue, prefer

Author: Susan Milius / Source: Science News In a big step toward catching up with the rest of the world, the United States cleared the way for using mosquitoes as a commercial pest control for the first time. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has approved using a strain of male Asian

Author: Lance Ulanoff / Source: Mashable My leg is itchy. Not all of it, just the now-healing spot where a mosquito bit me over the weekend. The scab is tiny, indicating I barely scratched it after the bite, but there’s still something there. I think I have Bite Helper to thank for not enduring