A new drug that makes human blood poisonous to mosquitoes could be a vital new tool to fight malaria. The drug, called ...

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and scores of thousands die from mosquito-borne yellow fever and dengue. To this day, insects smaller than a child’s thumbnail remain the most dangerous nonhuman animals on the planet.

One of the best ways to control mosquito populations around homes is to follow the “tip and toss” method. Here’s what to do.

The female Anopheles mosquito may well be the most dangerous creature on Earth. When she lands on human skin, she sucks up blood through her needle-shaped mouth and injects saliva into the wound.

Between mountain lions, rattlesnakes and bears, there are plenty of animals in Idaho that you may be legitimately afraid of.

Yvonne Linton to talk about what it’s like managing the Smithsonian’s almost 2 million mosquito specimens and trying to determine ones are most dangerous to people. Erin Malsbury The ...

A hidden mosquito-borne virus is spreading in Montana, but doctors are missing it. Learn why this illness is flying under the ...

WASHINGTON— California’s most-used insecticide, along with two other pesticides, is contaminated with potentially dangerous levels of PFAS “forever chemicals,” according ... of Environmental ...

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