Deep inside Medellin, Colombia, scientists are breeding millions of mosquitoes every week and then releasing them into the ...

Inside a small building in eastern Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Cátia Cabral holds up a jar filled with what looks like fine black pepper. But this ain't pepper. Each granule is actually a tiny mosquito ...

For more than two decades, Luciano Moreira has played a defining role in the development and large-scale deployment of the World Mosquito Program’s Wolbachia method of breeding mosquitoes that can’t ...

DDT helped wipe out one of the deadliest species from Brazil, but that's not the end of the story. By RJ Mackenzie Published May 2, 2025 8:00 AM EDT Add Popular Science (opens in a new tab) More ...

The deadliest animals are not lions, spiders or snakes, but the tiny mosquitoes that suck our blood, make us itchy and infect ...

On World Mosquito Day 2025, Europe’s health authorities are warning that the continent is entering a new phase for mosquito-borne diseases, even as global case counts remain historically high. Record ...