A female Anopheles mosquito is sitting on a vine of the forest at Tehatta, West Bengal, India. This genus of mosquitoes cause malaria in humans in endemic areas. “It’s essentially an arms race between ...

An international team has uncovered surprising details about mosquito mating, which could lead to improved malaria control techniques and even help develop precision drone flight. The team revealed ...

Female mosquitoes need to drink blood of some kind in order to lay eggs. Male mosquitoes, which do not lay eggs, subsist primarily on nectar. A male mosquito’s proboscis – its elongated feeding-tube ...

The female mosquito only mates once in her lifetime, and yet she can develop many hundreds of eggs from this single event. After each blood feeding, she draws from an internal sperm storage unit to ...

Some animals, from puffins and swans to prairie voles, are known to mate for life. For female mosquitoes, mating typically occurs once in their lifetime—lasting under 30 seconds—before the couple go ...

Female mosquitoes that transmit dengue and other diseases are actually in charge during sex, according to a study that challenges the long-held view that they are passive participants. Leslie Vosshall ...

For public release at 11 a.m. U.S. Eastern Time (8 a.m. U.S. Pacific Time) on Friday, Aug. 30, 2024 A high-pitched buzzing sound in your ear is an unmistakable sign that a female mosquito is out on ...

A female mosquito only gets one shot to get reproduction right: She mates just a single time in her entire life. With the stakes so high, it would make sense for these insects to be quite choosey when ...