One of nature's most disliked creatures may very well unlock a breakthrough in disaster response. A multidisciplinary Purdue ...

If you haven’t already started gathering your arsenal of tick and flea repellents and heartworm preventatives, now is the time. The most important thing to know is that not all tick and flea products ...

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She’d love to make you a friendship bracelet. A ground-floor bathroom is a unicorn in my neighborhood, where such a thing is rare among the early-1900s housing stock. After a long, arduous home ...

They also recommend using insect repellent, covering doors and windows with insect screens, and to avoid going outdoors at dusk and dawn. People can also reduce the number of mosquitoes around ...

To avoid wasting resources, check the Insect Diversity section in your Field Guide (on the second page). For example, if it says 1/0, it means there’s one insect present on the island ...

Mosquitoes have the same gene and a similar courtship ritual, meaning that canceling the gene could in theory control mosquito population growth. How fruit flies mate may hold a key to limiting ...

How fruit flies mate may hold a key to limiting the spread of diseases by mosquitoes. In a new study, University of Iowa researchers found a gene that orchestrates the antenna movements of female ...

Its CEO Adar Poonawalla spoke to NDTV on a range of issues, key among them the vaccine for malaria and other mosquito-borne diseases, on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum (WEF) meeting in ...