Mosquitoes are tiny insects less than half an inch long, yet they are responsible for the deaths of almost three-quarters of a million people each year, Mason Crouthamel said. Crouthamel is ...

Brevard County led the state in locally transmitted dengue fever cases in 2025 and remains under a health alert for ...

About a decade ago, a new kind of mosquito began showing up in African cities. Native to Asia, Anopheles stephensi prefers crowded urban environments over rural ones. That spelled trouble: These ...

Warmer weather brings with it many wonderful things like summer barbecues and a new gardening season, but it also harkens the rise of one of humanity's greatest foes: the mosquito. Mosquitoes are ...

An overabundance of a wetland plant is wreaking havoc at a freshwater marsh pond in northern San Rafael. The dense vegetation in the 20-acre pond managed by the Las Gallinas Valley Sanitary District ...

SANFORD, Mich. (WNEM) - Sections of exposed areas of what used to be Sanford Lake have been serving as a habitat for mosquitos. Since the area is hard to navigate on foot, Midland County Mosquito ...

Like many parts of Minnesota, spring-like weather has come early to Lake Baldwin in Lino Lakes. Along with something else, according to Suzette Dillon, who spotted a mosquito flying around her front ...

AMES, Iowa – Recent flooding throughout the state might give mosquito populations a boost. But, then again, it might not. Mosquitoes lay their eggs in water and spend the first stages of their ...

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