For every county in the United States, the map below shows information on all the animals and plants protected under the U.S. Endangered Species Act as threatened or endangered. To see the number of ...

Richard Oxborough plucked a vial of human blood from the rack on his lab bench. The UNLV researcher warmed the blood and fed it to a colony of mosquitoes. The critters won’t be quite as ...

A map shows nearly 65,000 acres ... Because the invasive southern house mosquito occupies higher elevations and cooler environments than other species of mosquitoes found on Maui, other species ...

PALO ALTO – The Palo Alto flood basin is set to be sprayed this week for an aggressive species of mosquito known to travel up to 20 miles in search of a “blood meal,” officials said.

The mosquito, whose name comes from the Spanish for “small fly”, is a type of insect that belongs to the family Culicidae. There are thousands of species of mosquitoes, but a distinguishing ...

The map also shows places where the species is present in the watershed ... treefrogs), and cause stagnant water that promotes mosquito breeding (alligatorweed). To see USGS' full interactive ...

You can actually feel them drilling into your skin,' says Gil. 'Most of us know how itchy a mosquito bite can be but with this species, there is no itch. There's just a painful sensation which lasts ...