Do mosquito-repellent plants really work? Buzzing past your ear as you lounge on the patio, leaving welts on your kids’ ...

As winter sets in, it’s easy to see insects as dormant nuisances waiting to resurface in spring. But beneath piles of leaves ...

Vector biologist Luciano Moreira has been fighting disease-causing pathogens for years. Now he teams up with Wolbachia in ...

Hedges, bushes and tall grass provide shade that shelters ... which means that anything that holds even a tiny bit of water ...

This story appears in the August 2016 issue of National Geographic magazine. We squash mosquitoes with our enormous hands. We poison-bomb them from spray trucks and airplanes. We irradiate them ...

Tea bushes under pest attack. Tea farmers from Kapkatet in Kericho county are grappling with Helopeltis (Mosquito bug) which is attacking their cash crops. Tea farmers from Kapkatet are grappling ...