The mosquito pierces your skin with their "proboscis," their feeding mouth part. But the proboscis isn't a single, straight, ...

Mosquito season is starting to rev up across much of the United States. And that means bug bites. When a mosquito bites you, it pierces the skin using a mouthpart called a proboscis to suck up blood.

FORT COLLINS, Colo. -- There's an old joke that mosquitoes are like family: They are annoying, but they carry your blood. Mosquito season is starting to rev up across much of the United States.

Mosquito-borne diseases are those that are transmitted to people through the bite of an infected mosquito. The diseases spread by mosquitoes can be caused by a parasite, as in the case of malaria, or ...

Give your vampire-fighting allies something worth fighting for. Provide a safe environment with a variety of foods, water, ...

In a potentially huge development for fashion in tropical countries, an entomologist has come up with a Spandex-polyester weave that’s impermeable to the proboscis of the mosquito ...

The mosquito inserts its proboscis and sucks up food which the ant squeezes from its stomach. Both parties seem to enjoy this interchange. The mosquito vibrates its wings with pleasure; ...

Search online, and you’ll find a laundry list of tips to stop the itch, like pressing a hot spoon onto a bite, or using The Bug Bite Thing, a suction tool meant to draw mosquito saliva out of ...

Sure, of course. I’d been on this scenic island trail before, and anyway, it was only April. Everyone knows mosquitoes never veer from their day planners. I donned hiking pants and boots, but by ...

This new species resides in two Southwest Florida counties and Miami-Dade, and is the sixth newly invasive mosquito to be detected in Florida in the past five years, according to Lawrence Reeves ...