Artificial lights at night are causing serious disruption to these insect night shift workers. That’s a problem for everyone.

Why do mosquito bites itch so much? When a mosquito bites you, it inserts the tip of its mouthparts into your skin and injects a small amount of its saliva into your bloodstream. This helps keep ...

The researchers were able to delete two standard genes in a generation of ticks that controlled the development of the insects’ mouthparts and outer cuticle. “This is something that was really ...

Treehoppers are members of a huge and varied order of insects known as the Hemiptera, which include leafhoppers and cicadas. Like others of their kind, they’re equipped with mouthparts for ...

Example Vector: Mosquito. When a mosquito lands on a suitable host it pushes its sharp stylets ... Chemoreceptors in the tarsomeres and heat are important cues that initiate probing in black flies.