We caught up with Dr. Yvonne Linton to talk about what it’s like managing the Smithsonian’s almost 2 million mosquito specimens and trying to determine ones are most dangerous to people.

Nearly a dozen Massachusetts towns are urging residents to stay indoors due to a dangerous mosquito-borne disease. As the ...

To this day, insects smaller than a child’s thumbnail remain the most dangerous nonhuman animals on the planet. Start with their physical equipment, especially in the mosquitoes that are the ...

Mosquitoes pose a grave threat to human health. They are vectors for devastating diseases like dengue fever and Zika, impacting millions of lives worldwide. Researchers from Australia’s ...

Climate change is exacerbating the risk of potentially dangerous mosquito-borne diseases in California — threatening to turn more of those annoying-but-harmless bites into severe illnesses ...

The female Anopheles mosquito may well be the most dangerous creature on Earth. When she lands on human skin, she sucks up blood through her needle-shaped mouth and injects saliva into the wound.

Mosquito-borne diseases are those that are transmitted to people through the bite of an infected mosquito. The diseases spread by mosquitoes can be caused by a parasite, as in the case of malaria, or ...

The UNLV researcher warmed the blood and fed it to a colony of mosquitoes. The critters won’t be quite as voracious as normal because Oxborough didn’t have the chance to starve them ...