A warm summer night, the hum of mosquitoes filling the air, and you, slathering on DEET, waving your arms like a windmill, ...

Why do mosquito bites itch so much? When a mosquito bites you, it inserts the tip of its mouthparts into your skin and injects a small amount of its saliva into your bloodstream. This helps keep ...

Like others of their kind, they’re equipped with mouthparts for piercing plant stems and slurping the juices inside. A bit like mosquitoes, they have two interlocking, needlelike feeding tubes ...

While the awkward-looking bugs bear a resemblance to mosquitoes (even nicknamed mosquito hawks), that's ... "Most crane fly adults don't eat (nor have mouthparts to do so), so much of their ...