Nothing adds insult to injury quite like a mosquito bite on a hot summer day. And if you’ve tried the candles, sprays, lights and everything else, you may think the fight against bugs is hopeless.

In a recent study, researcher Anandasankar Ray at the University of California, Riverside, and his team employed machine learning techniques combined with cheminformatics to predict novel mosquito ...

I would expect a bubble machine to work better than a citronella candle, but only because citronella candles barely work at all. Eleven years ago, we published a brief report of a quirky hack: Turning ...

Do backyard mosquito control machines really make it safe to go outside? -- B.U.Z., Tulsa. Remember, the Titanic sank. The American Mosquito Control Association ...

Mosquitoes and other biting insects are a pretty rude bunch. They show up at your cookouts uninvited and proceed to make a feast out of every human in sight. So, as we gear up for warmer weather and ...

Engineers have turned one of nature’s most reviled body parts into a precision tool, using the hollow feeding tubes of dead ...

Jennifer Castellon shook, tapped and blew on a box to shoo out more than 1,000 mosquitoes in a quiet, upscale Inland Empire neighborhood. The insects had a job to do, and the pest scientist wanted ...