Mosquito Control

With Hurricane Helene flooding Pasco’s coastline, and Milton dumping over 15 inches of rain on the county’s interior, officials said the situation was especially inviting for Aedes aegypti.

With mosquitoes abundant across the state, some counties have been practicing mitigation strategies against the bugs. Experts discuss the latest on "The Florida Roundup."

Part of the state’s surveillance program is keeping track of flooded areas, as pools of accumulated rainfall are prone to becoming mosquito breeding grounds.

Residents will drive home from the giveaway events with a bag of fish — but ones with a diet for mosquito larvae instead of fish flakes.

The rare but deadly mosquito-borne illness was detected in sentinel chickens in both counties in recent weeks.

Mosquitoes, it turns out, might be their own worst enemy. In a six-month field trial launched in South Miami last year, Miami-Dade County teamed up with...

Rainy season in South Florida means it's also mosquito season. And now there's a new weapon being added to the arsenal against the insects in the...

An insect-killing bacteria that lives inside a parasitic worm might hold the key to developing a powerful new repellent.

U.S. Food and Drug Administration officials say genetically modified mosquitoes are not "drugs" and should be regulated by environmental authorities.

When Monroe County held a nonbinding referendum last year on whether to allow the experimental release of genetically modified mosquitoes, most voters...

Florida health officials added another 12 reported cases of the Zika virus during the past week, including the first sexually transmitted case in 2017,...

A chemical used for mosquito control in South Florida has been the source of controversy in recent weeks, after a study showed it could be linked to...