Mosquitoes are able to survive prolonged droughts by drinking blood, which helps to explain how their populations quickly ...

On the east coast of Australia, in tropical North Queensland, lies the Daintree rainforest—a place where the density of trees ...

A great deal of research has gone into understanding how and why female mosquitoes—they are the ones that bite us—are ...

Male mosquitoes survive on nectar for nourishment. Mosquitoes can sense carbon dioxide from a significant distance. The more you exhale, the more attractive you become. Larger people exhale more ...

A person’s body chemistry is the prime factor in whether they will be a mosquito magnet. “That is primarily how much carbon dioxide a person releases,” Day says, whether through the nose ...

So all your thrashing and huffing and puffing only magnetizes mosquitoes and puts you at greater risk. She can smell carbon dioxide from over 200 feet away. When you exercise, for example ...

The increase in temperature and presence of stagnant water boost mosquito populations, raising the risk of diseases like ...

Or not. Mosquitoes can smell their dinner from an impressive distance of up to 50 meters. One of the things they're drawn to is carbon dioxide. So if you're a taller or larger person, or a ...

Among the businesses in their portfolio, four stood out as having a particularly audacious goal: They were working to strip carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, for a profit. As countries around ...

There are 30 types of mosquitoes to watch out for in Britain alone, and the way they find you is first through detecting heat and carbon dioxide, then by seeing you and finally by smelling you..

Conventionally, mosquito eggs remain dormant in October ... The Aedes albopictus is adept at detecting carbon dioxide emitted from human breath. When they become adults, they target people.