Start the day smarter. Get all the news you need in your inbox each morning. Only female mosquitoes bite, and they use our blood as protein for their eggs. Mosquitoes use their proboscis ...

Both male and female mosquitoes feed on plant nectars, fruit juices, and other plants sugars as their main energy source. Why, then, do mosquitoes bite humans? Female mosquitoes require blood to ...

Female mosquitoes spread those diseases among animals and humans when biting them, extracting blood contaminated with a disease germ that then can be transmitted to others in subsequent bites.

It is to be noted that only female mosquitoes bite and drink blood, thereby spreading diseases such as malaria and dengue fever. Male mosquitoes primarily eat plant juices and nectar to get the ...

Have you ever heard of a mosquito bite causing joint pain? Well, infection with the Chikungunya virus (CHIKV), which is transmitted to humans via the female Aedes aegypti and A. albopictus ...

A new study by Macquarie University researchers has suggested that the toxic male technique could be used to address the prevalence of mosquito-borne illness. The scientists, which genetically ...