“The words that are repeated to the point of nausea in the diaries, letters, and accounts of the Scottish settlers are mosquitoes, fever, ague, and death,” the historian Timothy C. Winegard ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) High-resolution environmental suitability maps for Aedes aegypti in Rio de Janeiro were generated using openly available geodata, including satellite imagery and ...

CANTON – Mosquito spraying will occur in the following areas, according to the Canton City Public Health Department: June 9-11: northwest Canton, with east boundary of Market Avenue, north ...

Researchers have created a "mosquito STD" in an effort to stop the pesky pests from spreading malaria to humans.A team of researchers that included a University of Maryland entomologist came up ...

The village celebrated with a parade, a surprise sculpture and a festival at the end. Even with the rainy weather, residents still showed up to enjoy the day's festivities. "We come every year and ...

This story has been updated to correct the misspelled name of Lisa Couper. Warmer weather is lengthening the mosquito season in the United States, increasing populations of the pests and their ...

While mosquitoes will attack whoever is handiest, they prefer adults to children, women to men, and pregnant women most. (They find ovulating women more attractive than those menstruating.) ...

The Asian tiger mosquito, one of the most invasive insect species in Connecticut, is rapidly spreading and finding more territory in the state, officials said. The invasive Asian tiger mosquito ...

After a long winter, many people are happy to get outdoors again, playing, gardening, exercising and more. But we aren’t the only ones emerging from winter hibernation — many bugs are starting to make ...

YOU MIGHT BE WONDERING, WHAT ARE THESE MOSQUITO DAYS THAT WE TALK ABOUT? MOSQUITO DAYS ARE DAYS WITH 50 TO 95 DEGREE TEMPERATURES AND HAVE A 42% RELATIVE HUMIDITY ASSOCIATED WITH THEM, OR ...

Residents should empty standing water from containers around their homes to reduce mosquito breeding sites. Repellents like DEET, picaridin, and oil of lemon eucalyptus can help protect against ...

Summer could be shaping up to be a bad one for mosquitoes, if forecast predictions for a warm, wet spring and summer hold for much of Ontario. “We’re going to really see high population of mosquito,” ...