Blood-sucking mosquitoes have their uses. An innovative approach that analyses their last blood meals can reveal evidence of infection in the people or animals that the flying insects feasted on.

Traditional animal farming has fulfilled human nutritional requirements for protein, but insects may serve as an alternative for direct human consumption in the future. Researchers are working to lay ...

Mosquito season has arrived in California. That means more mosquitoes will be flying around looking for someone to bite. “There’s not a lot of things that we can all agree on, especially in this day ...

This article was originally featured on Undark. At Singapore’s National Environment Agency, more than a million mosquitoes buzz inside plastic boxes in a breeding room that smells of fermented sugar.