These mosquitoes are all male and have been sterilized by the radiation, so the hope is that they will find wild female mates and impregnate them with dead-end sperm, rendering the resulting eggs ...

Mosquitoes are much more blunt. Mating occurs for a few seconds in midair. And all it takes to woo a male is the sound of a female's wingbeats. Imagine researchers' surprise when a single change ...

One interesting idea to fend off the disease-carrying bugs comes from a company called Oxitec, which genetically modifies male mosquitoes to carry a lethal gene. Those bugs mate with female ...

The Collier Mosquito Control District is using sterile males to fight the overall population. It's one of the newer ...

How malaria-killing mosquitoes could work Oxitec's newest genetically-engineered male mosquitoes will be ... malaria-carrying females. Since only female mosquitoes bite, the lab-engineered insects ...

Male mosquitoes don't bite so they can't spread disease, but they can still mate with wild Australian female mosquitoes and pass on their genes—both the lethal gene and other genes naturally ...

The familiar buzz of a flying female mosquito may be irritating to humans, but for her male counterpart, it is an irresistible mating signal. American scientists have discovered that during mating ...

On a still night, as the air is thick with silence, the sharp, whining buzz of a mosquito shatters ... and fertility in their female mates. 7 This physiological response is caused by seminal fluid ...

Mosquito Control started in Golden Gate City but plans to release sterile mosquitoes weekly for the next 28 weeks, through ...

Because only female mosquitoes bite and transmit avian ... “The idea is that you release male mosquitoes which do not bite onto the landscape that are reproductively incompatible with the ...