A mosquito has a very finely tuned proboscis that is excellent at slipping through your skin to suck out the blood beneath. Researchers at McGill University recently figured that the same biological ...

Mosquitoes are responsible for more than a million deaths worldwide every year through the transmission of viral diseases like malaria and dengue. Their bloodsucking ways leave itchy bumps, they ...

In a redeeming development for one of nature’s most universally denounced pests, researchers from McGill and Drexel Universities have discovered that mosquito stingers might one day be used for ...

Under a microscope, the mosquito’s proboscis looks like a tiny, precision tool. Thin, flexible, and sharp, it slips through skin almost unnoticed to draw blood. To most people, it’s a nuisance. To ...

Mosquitoes are more likely to bite certain people, according to researchers, as there are a number of factors which influence whose blood they decide to feast on. The little bloodsuckers are an ...