Science has proven that mosquitoes love to feast on Type O blood. Growing up in Puerto Rico, I was used to seeing my arms and legs covered in mosquito bites after a full day at the beach. There was no ...

Ever wondered why mosquitoes seem to eat you alive while your companions don’t get a single bite? It’s not in your head – it ...

The DC area has seen rain all week and we know with the mixture of rain and warm weather is a recipe for mosquitoes popping up in the masses. So our Verify team checked out a buzzing rumor about a ...

Columbia, SC (WLTX) -- Have you ever wondered why you get more mosquito bites then others? Or have you ever been told you have sweet blood? News 19 received questions wanting to know if a specific ...

Fact: Only bites from an infected female mosquito can transmit dengue or malaria. For dengue, a mosquito must have previously ...

Mosquitoes are able to survive prolonged droughts by drinking blood, which helps to explain how their populations quickly ...

It’s getting hotter in North Carolina, which means mosquitoes are out for blood. Kristin Dodd, the manager of Carolina Pest Management, a Charlotte-based pest control company, told The Charlotte ...

Scratching away at your mosquito bites after spending the day outside? Those irritable itches are a reaction to mosquito bites. But what causes your skin to react that way? Here’s more on why ...

A drug that makes human blood lethal to mosquitoes also acts as a potent contact insecticide absorbed through the feet, providing a promising new approach to combating insecticide resistance.

“[The paper] shows that details of a blood sucking mosquito can be nicely preserved in a medium other than amber,” paleontologist George Poinar of Oregon State University, who was not involved in this ...

By Priyanjana Pramanik, MSc. Balloon sampling has now confirmed that mosquitoes migrating high above West Africa often carry ...