Just like Dracula, these animals need to drink blood to survive. Fortunately, they prefer just about any other mammal over ...

Deadly genetically modified mosquitoes that glow fluorescent red ... Only female mosquitoes bite and drink blood.Credit: That’s why Oxitec, which grew out of Oxford University, has developed ...

The likely first summer case of a potentially deadly mosquito-borne virus has been identified in regional Victoria. Japanese encephalitis, a flavivirus related to dengue and yellow fever ...

An animal whose blood is spiced with some such deadly substance should make an unattractive meal for lice, ticks or mosquitoes. The most successful experiments were with human body lice ...