Japanese researchers have developed a new approach to controlling cyborg insects that focuses on ...

Garlic, as your grandmother may have told you, repels mosquitoes; it also completely blocks them from mating and laying eggs.

For decades, ecologists have theorized that the extinction of one important species could set off a chain reaction of losses ...

Bugya Habitat is a fun experiment with flying bugs that can inhabit watermelons, nuts, and other things. There ...

Every summer, millions of people spray themselves with DEET to keep mosquitoes away. But new research suggests mosquitoes may ...

Mosquitoes can learn to associate the smell of the world's most common insect repellent with a tasty meal -- and after training can even prefer to bite people who have been sprayed with it, an ...

California stands at the center of a novel public health experiment that could reshape how mosquito-borne illnesses are ...

NBC News reviewed dozens of videos that showed small animals being physically maimed. The videos have spawned their own small ...

DEET has been one of the most effective insect repellents for the past 80 years, but there could be a chink in the ...

Effective as it is, however, some mosquitoes seem capable of getting over their revulsion. This has led to the speculation ...

While the findings suggest some mosquitoes are adapting, the study's authors stress that DEET remains an effective insect repellent.