Scientists are proposing a new insecticide strategy: mosquito birth control. This is an Inside Science story. Scientists searching for environmentally friendly ways to fight the menace of mosquitoes ...
Mosquitoes are the deadliest creatures on Earth — each year, nearly a million people die from a disease they caught from one of the tiny insects. Rather than focusing on finding a cure for bug-borne ...
TUCSON – There are many different types of birth control available to humans, but now there is birth control for mosquitoes. The buzz of a mosquito can be annoying, or it could be deadly. “If you live ...
TUCSON, Ariz. (CBS Local)-- Scientists say they've taken a major step toward developing a "mosquito birth control" drug to curb the spread of Zika, malaria and other diseases blamed for hundreds of ...
HONOLULU (KHON2) — A public virtual meeting on a mosquito birth control project on Maui will be held on Zoom on Thursday, June 9, from 6 – 7:30 p.m. Members of the organization Birds, Not Mosquitoes ...
TUCSON- Researchers say they have invented a “birth control” for mosquitoes, and say they could implement the treatment as early as 2024. Dr. Roger Miesfeld at the University of Arizona has been ...
HANA (HawaiiNewsNow) - A small non-profit on Maui is trying to pick up support for its effort to block a mosquito birth-control project. Supporters of the group Hawaii Unites waived signs outside St.
Mosquito haters of the world, rejoice! A few years ago we told you about the first version of this solar-powered mosquito repellent that works by disturbing the surface of standing water. Since then, ...
Local scientists are steps closer to playing mosquito matchmaker in an effort to quell avian malaria, one of the top threats to native birds facing extinction, such as Maui’s kiwikiu. The multiagency ...
Researchers at the University of Arizona have discovered a way of preventing mosquito eggs from hatching, potentially paving the way for drugs that could serve as “birth control” within mosquito ...
A virtual town hall meeting on plans to use mosquito birth control to save endangered Hawaiian honeycreepers will be held from 6 to 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Maui County Council Member Kelly Takaya King ...