Chemical control involves the use of insecticides to kill immature or adult mosquitoes. New chemical, biological, and genetic approaches are being developed and may provide promising alternatives ...

They devised a method to create a recombinant protein containing the peptide Trypsin Modulating Oostatic Factor (TMOF), which effectively kills mosquito larvae. The initial step involves cloning ...

When the containers fill with water, mosquito larvae hatch from the eggs. After developing through four larval stages, the larvae metamorphose into pupas. Like the larval stage, the pupal stage is ...

Females lay their eggs in or near water, and the larvae are aquatic ... a “blood meal” to be able to build those little baby ...

When the mosquito bites a victim, the eggs hatch. Then the larvae wriggle into your skin, creating a painful pimple that leaks pus. Or, as the baby botflies call it, lunch. After 5 to 10 weeks ...