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

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

which kills soybean plants and has become resistant to most agriculturally used insecticides. Perhaps most significantly, ...

The Mosquito Fire destroyed 76,000 acres of forestland in Placer and El Dorado counties in 2022, and now a multi-million ...

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 ...