Officials said they will monitor mosquito traps throughout the program to measure how well it is working.

Sacramento-Yolo Mosquito and Vector Control District officials will begin releasing sterile male Aedes aegypti mosquitoes in ...

The Sacramento-Yolo Mosquito and Vector Control District is expanding a program to attack the disease-carrying pests with a ...

More than 30,000 sterile mosquitoes will be released in the San Gabriel Valley every week through October in an effort to ...

Yolo County is now the fourth Northern California county to report a positive case of the West Nile virus. The ...

A mosquito-control district will release mosquitoes into Rosemont weekly starting July 7 to help eliminate dangerous species ...

Wolbachia bacteria could offer an environmentally-friendly way of controlling mosquitoes and the many diseases they spread.

Most people think of mosquitoes as a Southern problem – a swampy, humid, Georgia-in-August kind of problem. For years, that ...

ROANOKE, Va. (WFXR) — The summer is in full swing, and as the temperatures rise, health officials are warning about vector-borne illnesses. In biology terms, vectors are living organisms that can ...

After being outside, it's common to find a bug bite or rash on your body. Here are 10 bug bites (e.g., mosquitoes, ticks, ...

The detection of the African-origin Usutu virus in Scottish blackbirds for the first time has raised concerns among scientists about the growing risk of mosquito-borne diseases as temperatures rise ...