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This story appears in the August 2016 issue of National Geographic magazine. We squash mosquitoes with our enormous hands. We poison-bomb them from spray trucks and airplanes. We irradiate them ...

GENETICALLY engineered “toxic male” mosquitoes could help kill off disease-spreading females. Scientists say the gene-hacked male insects can cull female numbers by mating with ...

Ever wonder why sometimes at a backyard party, the person next to you is getting bitten by mosquitoes, but not you? Or not. Mosquitoes can smell their dinner from an impressive distance of up to ...

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To keep mosquitoes at bay, many of us will reach for the bottle of insect repellent or citronella candles in order to avoid ...

It's a hot, steamy summer across much of the northern hemisphere, and mosquito bites are as much a part of the season as hikes and picnics. This year, though, daily headlines remind us that a bite ...

During the day, Mosquito Bay is nothing special as Caribbean beaches go. At night, the waters emit a blue glow from organisms called dinoflagellates that live in the waters and light up when ...

Mosquitoes can spread disease from person to person, and from place to place An invasive species of mosquito has set up home in 13 countries in the EU, including France, Spain and Greece, with ...