With the arrival in California of dengue, a dangerous mosquito-borne disease present mainly in more tropical climates, public ...

Male mosquitoes that fail to hear potential females do not end up mating — a phenomenon that could have major implications ...

Several people caught dengue fever locally in Los Angeles this fall. Climate change and invasive mosquitoes have made that ...

Could eliminating mosquitoes' sense of hearing be the key to eliminating mosquito-borne diseases like dengue, yellow fever, ...

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Researchers at UCSB created deaf mosquitoes by knocking out a single gene and found that the males had absolutely no interest ...

Research from UC Santa Barbara reveals that disrupting the gene responsible for hearing in male Aedes aegypti mosquitoes ...

Male mosquitoes that fail to hear potential females ... a neurobiology professor at the University of California Santa Barbara, said in a statement. These findings, the scientists stressed ...

Mosquitoes are much more blunt ... The technique works marvelously for certain agricultural pests like the California medfly. "The fact that you haven't heard of this pest is a testament to ...