Female bees and wasps are the real defenders. Only females can sting, because stingers are modified egg-laying organs. Males do nothing in defence. Females guard nests, food, and colonies with extreme ...

Mosquitoes have been biting people for more than a million years and probably much longer. An analysis of 38 modern mosquitoes’ DNA suggests an ancestral mosquito species developed a preference for ...

Southern California has experienced significant temperature fluctuations in the last two weeks of February 2026, shifting from cooler, active weather to intense, summer-like heat—a pattern experts ...

She says when male and female insects look different, that is called sexual dimorphism – and this can happen in a variety of ...

From summer evenings to global disease prevention, mosquito repellents are a daily defense for billions of people, yet until ...

These parameters help distinguish mosquito species such as Aedes, Anopheles, and Culex, which are vectors for dengue, malaria ...

"Knowing that mosquitoes in an area have a strong preference for humans serves as an alert for transmission risk," said ...

The CDC has issued a Level 2 travel advisory for Seychelles due to a chikungunya outbreak. Travellers are urged to take ...

KwaZulu-Natal has seen a concerning rise in malaria-related deaths since January, with four fatalities reported.

A scourge of mosquitoes has been terrorizing residents of El Segundo for the past two months — and the situation is only getting worse. Residents say they are covered in bites and welts despite trying ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Scientists have engineered a “color-coded” strain of Asian tiger mosquitoes where males are dark and females are pale, allowing ...