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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 close up of a mosquito biting human skin

A mosquito killer may lurk in a Mediterranean bacteria

By Laura Baisas

a mosquito on a white daisy

This mosquito death trap is all-natural and very deadly

By Laura Baisas

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

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

By Fiona Cross / The Conversation

a mosquito under a microscope

What would a world without mosquitoes look like?

By RJ Mackenzie

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

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

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

Scotland suddenly has a lot of mosquitoes

Scotland suddenly has a lot of mosquitoes

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

oats, baking soda, apple cider vinegar, honey, and aloe vera on a kitchen counter top

11 home remedies for mosquito bites to battle the itch

By Debbie Wolfe

A lineup of four of the best mosquito traps

The 6 best mosquito traps

A lab technologist with the Louisville Metro Department of Public Health and Wellness holds test tubes full of liquified mosquito remains in a lab at Health Department headquarters in Louisville, Kentucky.

How climate change is expanding the reach of EEE, a rare and deadly mosquito-borne illness

By Zoya Teirstein/Grist

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