When female mosquitoes feed, they don't seem to mind a crowd because lots of carbon dioxide usually means there's food. They were thought to be more solitary, however, when laying eggs.

When a mosquito bites, its saliva acts like an anaesthetic, preventing you from feeling it. But it's only female mosquitoes that bite, and they do it because blood contains both nutrition for her ...

Mosquitoes have sex while flying in mid-air and the males rely on hearing to chase down a female, based on her attractive wingbeats. The researchers did an experiment, altering a genetic pathway ...

Mosquitoes are also evolving to resist insecticides. Only female mosquitoes bite and drink blood.Credit: That’s why Oxitec, which grew out of Oxford University, has developed a line of self ...

Once released, they mate with wild female mosquitoes — resulting in eggs that fail to hatch. Since male mosquitoes neither bite nor suck any blood, they can be released over an extended period ...

Removing flowers from a common shrub appeared to kill off lots of the older, adult, female, biting insects that transmit malaria. Without enough nectar the "granny" mosquitoes starve, experts believe.

TOKYO -- Male mosquitoes can discern from among females of the same species by the sound of their wings to avoid crossbreeding, a team of researchers at Nagoya University in central Japan ...

This innovative method could potentially lead to a decline in mosquito populations and reduce the spread of these diseases. Female mosquitoes are the ones that spread diseases to people ...