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a drone in three separate colors, black, red, and yellow with the text tornyol above them

Mosquito-killing drone blasts bloodsuckers to bits

By Mack DeGeurin

An Ixodes tick (left). An Asian tiger mosquito. (right)

What a cold winter means for ticks and mosquitoes

By Laura Baisas

a mosquito drinking human blood

Without forests, mosquitoes turn to human blood

a mosquito biting human skin

Mosquitoes can learn that DEET means dinner is served

By Laura Baisas

a mosquito on a white daisy

This mosquito death trap is all-natural and very deadly

By Laura Baisas

A close up of a mosquito biting human skin

A mosquito killer may lurk in a Mediterranean bacteria

By Laura Baisas

Dr. Rebecca Heinig holds up a bad of mosquitoes breed at the Thermacell Science & Research Center to test the effectiveness of spatial repellents

I visited Thermacell’s lab that breeds mosquitoes. It didn’t suck.

Meet the mosquito terminator – a spider that likes us and eats our enemies

By Fiona Cross / The Conversation

A female Anopheles mosquito is sitting on a green vine of the forest a

Scientists engineer mosquito STD to combat malaria

By Laura Baisas

Close-up of a dead mosquito lying on its back on a flat surface, its legs curled upward and abdomen visibly red with ingested blood, with wings partially extended and fine hairs on its limbs catching the light.

This drug can turn your blood into mosquito poison

By Mack DeGeurin

Close-up of aedes aegypti mosquito sucking blood from human skin, transmitting dangerous diseases like dengue fever, zika virus, and chikungunya, Chumphon in thailand.

Mosquitoes have been sucking our blood for 1.8 million years

a mosquito under a microscope

What would a world without mosquitoes look like?

By RJ Mackenzie

Close up of mosquito biting a person's skin

Mosquitos seem to like beer drinkers who recently had sex

Cedar Creek in Congaree National Park, South Carolina, showing old growth bottomland hardwood forest.

This National Park uses a ‘Skeeter Meter’ to inform visitors about mosquitoes

By Laura Baisas

A ringworm mosquito (Culiseta annulata) is seen on a control monitor connected to a microscope in the laboratory for mosquito monitoring at the Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut (FLI) on the island of Riems in Germany.

Iceland was the only country in the world without mosquitos—now they’ve found three

By Margherita Bassi

an infrared image of a human head, showing warm areas in shades of orange and yellow, and cooler areas in blue and green

Mosquitoes can sense our body heat

By Laura Baisas

Thermacell refills and device with boxes on a plain background on sale at Amazon

Get Thermacell mosquito repellents for their lowest prices of the year during Amazon’s Memorial Day sale

By Stan Horaczek

A selection of Thermacell products on a cosmic background for Amazon Prime Deal Days 2026

If you want to keep mosquitoes away, you want to keep Thermacell repellents close, and Amazon has them on sale for a limited time

orange bucket filled with leaves. a hose rests on the edge of the bucket with water coming out

How to build a mosquito kill bucket

By Debbie Wolfe

a woman scratches several red mosquito bites on her shoulder

‘Ancient, funny’ cells are to blame for itchy mosquito bites

By Laura Baisas

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a bird with white and gray feathers and a black beak looks at the camera

‘Birds Supporting Birds’ connects the Philadelphia Eagles with migrating seabirds

By Laura Baisas

Joshita Majumdar before heading into the scanner (left). The cast of Friends (clockwise from the left): Matthew Perry as Chandler Bing, Matt Le Blanc as Joey Tribbiani, David Schwimmer as Ross Geller, Jennifer Aniston as Rachel Green, Lisa Kudrow as Phoebe Buffay, and Courteney Cox as Monica Geller (right).

Classic sitcom ‘Friends’ helps grad student endure 104 brain scans

By Mack DeGeurin

Lionesses and cubs from one of the prides Barker worked with at Etosha National Park; the collared lioness is visible on the left.

New data flips the narrative on how lions and hyenas interact in the wild

By Margherita Bassi

Black and white photo of ice-covered lookout post called Hurricane Hill in Olympic National Park

National Park Service’s WWII series highlights Washington State nature reserve