Scientists believe they have found a quirky way to fight mosquito-spread diseases such as dengue, yellow fever and Zika - by ...

A team of researchers from the University of California says deafening male insects makes them unable to mate and reproduce.

The "shocking" findings could help efforts to prevent the spread of diseases like dengue, yellow fever, and Zika.

A team from the University of California studied Aedes aegypti mosquitoes, which annually infect approximately 400 million ...

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Scientists have developed a novel method to curb mosquito-borne diseases by making male mosquitoes deaf, hindering their ability to find females and mate.

yellow fever and Zika -- by turning the male mosquitoes deaf so they cannot mate and breed. Both male and female mosquitoes ...

Romance is a complex affair in humans. There's personality, appearance, seduction, all manner of physical and social cues. Mosquitoes are much more blunt. Mating occurs for a few seconds in midair.

Male mosquitoes that fail to hear potential females do not end up mating — a phenomenon that could have major implications ...

Mosquitoes rely on their hearing while in flight to locate potential mates through the sound of female wingbeats. Scientists ...

Romance is a complex affair in humans. There's personality, appearance, seduction, all manner of physical and social cues. Mosquitoes are much more blunt. Mating occurs for a few seconds in midair.

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 ...