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As robins disperse, West Nile mosquitoes switch diet to humans: Q&A with...
A rising spike in West Nile virus is taking health officials across the country by surprise as so far this year more than 2,600 people in 45 states and the District of Columbia, have been stricken with...
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Discovery of new prehistoric mosquitoes reveal these blood-suckers have...
Two new mosquito species discovered in Eocene deposits from northwestern Montana reveal just how remarkably little these parasites have changed in the last 46 million years. Found in well preserved...
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Blood molecules preserved for millions of years in abdomen of fossil mosquito
Sometime during the Middle Eocene a prehistoric mosquito slurped down a final blood meal then died and sank to the bottom of a pond in what is now northwestern Montana. Slowly covered in fine sediments...
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Smithsonian’s mosquito collection is weapon in battle against Zika
In association with man, “A. aegypti” will use any and all natural and artificial containers as larval breeding sites. Away from urban areas the species tends to favor pools in river beds, tree stumps,...
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