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April 26, 2011The Sciences
Mosquito Biochemistry Lets Them Handle Hot Blood: A hot blood meal should denature mosquito digestive enzymes, but other mosquito molecules protect those compounds. Christopher Intagliata reports

May 30, 1908The Sciences
Fishes and the Mosquito Problem: Their Serviceability as Mosquito Exterminators; William P. Seal; Scientific American Supplements Volume 65, Issue 1691supp; 10.1038/scientificamerican05301908-351supp

September 30, 1916The Sciences
Recent Cruise of Patrol Squadron No. I: Work of Part of the Mosquito Fleet; Orson D. Munn; Scientific American Volume 115, Issue 14; 10.1038/scientificamerican09301916-302

March 1, 2009Health
Infecting Mosquitoes May Keep Them from Infecting Us: Life-shortening bacterium could beat mosquito-borne disease; Bianca Nogrady; March 2009

March 1, 2014Health
Painful Mosquito-Borne Viral Disease Reaches Western Hemisphere: A nasty mosquito-borne virus spreads to the Western Hemisphere; Dina Fine Maron; Scientific American Volume 310, Issue 3; 10.1038/scientificamerican0314-24; Originally published as "Trouble Knocking" in Scientific American Volume 310, Issue 3

May 18, 1907The Sciences
Progressiveness in Italy: Large Drainage Plant as Related to Mosquito Extermination; Henry Clay Weeks; Scientific American Supplements Volume 63, Issue 1637supp; 10.1038/scientificamerican05181907-26233supp

May 11, 2016Medicine
Vaccines Put Brakes on Yellow Fever Surge: WHO urges preparation for more flare-ups of this mosquito-borne disease

December 21, 2016Climate Change
El Niño and Global Warming Blamed for Zika Spread: Mosquito-borne diseases like Zika can be extremely sensitive to climatic changes; Kavya Balaraman and E&E News

February 4, 2008Health
Net Benefits: Bed Netting, Drugs Stem Malaria Deaths: Proactive African countries see fewer children felled by the mosquito-borne disease; JR Minkel

February 11, 2016Public Health
Back to Its Roots: How Zika May Threaten Africa: Regional health experts are bracing themselves for imported cases of the mosquito-borne illness

April 1, 2016Public Health
How Zika Travels to the U.S.: The mosquito-borne virus migrates to the U.S. from diverse nations; Dina Fine Maron; Scientific American Volume 314, Issue 4; 10.1038/scientificamerican0416-84; Originally published as "Travels with Zika" in Scientific American Volume 314, Issue 4

December 30, 2015Health
First Dengue Fever Vaccine Gets Green Light in 3 Countries: The mosquito-borne disease afflicts millions, and has had no approved vaccine until now; Dina Fine Maron

August 1, 2020Technology
Lidar Advances Show Mosquito Rush Hours: New research shows how a laser-based system can help detect mosquito movements; Susan Cosier; Scientific American Volume 323, Issue 2; 10.1038/scientificamerican0820-18a; Originally published as "Mosquito Rush Hour" in Scientific American Volume 323, Issue 2

July 30, 2015Environment
What Global Warming Means for 4 of Summer's Worst Pests: Mosquito season is getting longer among other buzz kills; Andrea Thompson and Climate Central

August 15, 2016Public Health
Could Yellow Fever Become the Next Pandemic?: Health experts struggle to contain a massive outbreak of the deadly mosquito-borne infection; Emily Baumgaertner

November 13, 1915The Sciences
Malarial Mosquitoes as the Food of Bats: Experiments and Observations Indicating That the Bat Is the Arch Enemy of the Malarial Mosquito; Chas. H. R. Campbell; Scientific American Volume 113, Issue 20; 10.1038/scientificamerican11131915-425

August 1, 2009Environment
Good News on Malaria Control [Extended version]: The best price for getting anti-mosquito bed nets to the poor proves to be "free"; Jeffrey D. Sachs; August 2009; 10.1038/scientificamerican0809-29

April 23, 2018Climate Change
Precarious Life of Texas Farmworkers Becomes Riskier with Warming: Increasing heat, drought and mosquito-borne diseases make this work more dangerous; Scott Waldman and E&E News

August 1, 2016Public Health
How 4 Olympic Teams Have Prepared for Zika: From mosquito-repelling uniforms to specially treated condoms, these Olympians are taking extra measures to avoid infection; Knvul Sheikh; Scientific American Volume 315, Issue 2; 10.1038/scientificamerican0816-19; Originally published as "Zika-Proofing the Olympics" in Scientific American Volume 315, Issue 2

April 1, 1930Health
Can the World Banish Malaria?: A Physician's Practical Plan to Rid the World of the Mosquito-Borne Disease; a Plan Which Nearly All Can Test; Theo. Krysto; Scientific American Volume 142, Issue 4; 10.1038/scientificamerican0430-270

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