The district expects to detect West Nile virus in native Culex mosquitoes as the season progresses, a pattern seen year after year. This week, the district is using Mosquito Awareness Week as a ...

SUFFOLK, Va. (WAVY) — As summer quickly approaches, the city of Suffolk is offering their residents free mosquito dunks. The dunks are a part of the city’s preparation for the insect’s ...

Among these pesky fliers is the Northern House Mosquito, Culex pipiens, which can spread West Nile Virus and St. Louis encephalitis in humans, as well as avian malaria in birds and heartworm ...

Medina Diaz said their response is being guided by how they would handle the native Culex mosquito, which primarily shows up at the beginning of each season. Those can transmit West Nile virus and ...

To the naked eye, the egg of the Anopheles gambiae mosquito is just a dark speck, but under a 100-power microscope, it shows up as a fat, slightly curved cucumber, somewhat narrower at one end ...

This helps ensure these viruses don’t spread to mosquitoes in other communities. West Nile virus, spread by Culex mosquitoes, is the most prevalent and serious disease transmitted by mosquitoes in ...

Reducing your exposure to mosquitoes lowers your chance of getting a mosquito-borne illness. Mosquito season in Maine usually begins in the spring and ends in the fall. If you work or play outdoors, ...

Artificial intelligence and phylogenetics helped scientists revise the evolutionary timeline of bacteria.