This story appears in the August 2016 issue of National Geographic magazine. We squash mosquitoes with our enormous hands. We poison-bomb them from spray trucks and airplanes. We irradiate them ...

and their behavior and appearance have earned them common local names like mosquito hawks, skeeter-eaters, and daddy longlegs. However, unlike mosquitoes, crane flies don’t feed on blood ...

Dragonflies, often referred to as “mosquito hawks,” are voracious predators of mosquitoes. Both adult dragonflies and their larvae, known as nymphs, feed on mosquitoes, making them excellent ...

Crane flies, also known as mosquito hawks in Texas, do not bite, nor do they eat mosquitos. Only female mosquitos bite. Garlic is a deterrent for mosquitos and a 2015 study in Journal of Insect ...

Mosquitoes like sweet blood Wrong. Mosquito expert and biologist Helge Kampen points to two errors in this statement: there ...

As mosquitoes and mosquito-borne illnesses like dengue fever spread across the world, researchers say that a key strategy to prevent these illnesses may be dissuading the insects from biting their ...

No, there is no research to support that mosquitoes can transmit sexually transmitted infections (STIs). However, they can transmit mosquito-borne diseases, such as malaria, Zika, and Dengue fever.

During the day, Mosquito Bay is nothing special as Caribbean beaches go. At night, the waters emit a blue glow from organisms called dinoflagellates that live in the waters and light up when ...

A Connecticut father died Monday — five years after he was bitten by an infected mosquito while clearing brush in his wooded backyard. Richard Pawulski, 49, was killed from complications of ...

Channel 13's Joe Moeller speaks with experts at the Southern Nevada Health District on what they're doing to prevent the spread of virus-carrying mosquitoes. LAS VEGAS (KTNV) — With cooler ...

Crane flies, also known as mosquito hawks in Texas, do not bite, nor do they eat mosquitos. Only female mosquitos bite. Garlic is a deterrent for mosquitos and a 2015 study in Journal of Insect ...