Residents may notice staff using backpack sprayers or truck-mounted sprayers to deploy larvicides and adulticides, the Franklin County Commissioners said.

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Understanding mosquito genetics for mosquito-borne diseases such as dengue and Zika can lead to better control methods, reducing their spread around the world. Virginia Tech researchers have found a ...

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — It’s lunchtime at the Salt Lake City Mosquito Abatement District and a colony of sabethes cyaneus — also known as the paddle-legged beauty for its feathery appendages and ...

To curb a dengue-carrying mosquito, L.A. County officials are releasing sterilized males. The approach is promising, but ...

Virginia Tech researchers have found a new way to identify genetic targets useful for control of mosquito populations, potentially offering an alternative to insecticides. Their study, published in ...

Malaria mosquitoes in South America are evolving and becoming harder to control with current methods, according to a new study.

With continued rainfall and the resulting accumulation of stagnant water in many areas—creating a favourable environment for insects—residents have ...

Scientists have finally cracked how mosquitoes decide where to fly—and it’s not by following each other. Instead, each insect ...

Scientists at Virginia Tech may have just made it easier to fight the world's deadliest animal: the mosquito. Only female mosquitoes bite because they need nutrients from blood to develop eggs. That ...