Modern-day parasitoids in the same superfamily—Chrysidoidea—include cuckoo wasps (which, as their name suggests, lay their eggs in the nests of their hosts) and bethylid wasps (which paralyze their ...

An extinct lineage of parasitic wasps dating from the mid-Cretaceous period and preserved in amber may have used their Venus ...

Discover nitisinone, a drug for rare diseases that could also combat mosquitoes and their transmission of malaria.

Low doses of a drug already approved for treating rare genetic conditions in humans kills mosquitoes dead. Scientists say it ...

Malaria breakthrough as scientists find drug makes human blood deadly to mosquitoes - Researchers say the drug is able to kill older mosquitoes that are most likely to transmit malaria ...

In the fight against malaria, controlling the mosquito population is crucial. Several methods are currently used to reduce ...