Experts warn that without immediate intervention, the Culex mosquito population will keep increasing until March. For all latest news, follow The Daily Star's Google News channel. They also ...

The multiagency mosquito control project ... harms native birds — the Culex quinquefasciatus. In a lab setting, male Culex quinquefasciatus mosquitoes would get a different strain of Wolbachia ...

A different group, known as culex mosquitoes are responsible for transmitting West nile virus, and are not part of the sterile male pilot program ... say it’s new for mosquito control.

McBride said they’re the first mosquito control district ever to do this. Essentially, their scientists sterilize male mosquitoes, then release them in a neighborhood. Those mosquitoes mate with ...