Have you ever paid attention to what they look like? You might have come across an Asian tiger mosquito (Aedes albopictus). This mosquito species has a black body with white stripes and a single ...

The Asian tiger mosquito, measuring just a quarter of an ... resulting from wet periods in the spring and summer.

A Spanish laboratory is breeding and sterilising thousands of tiger mosquitoes to combat the rapid spread of dengue fever and other diseases. The increasing prevalence of these diseases in Europe ...