A variety of subway-dwelling mosquito seems like a modern artifact. But genomic analysis reveals the insect got its evolutionary start millennia ago.

Researchers compiled the first global database tracing how, when, and where non-native mosquito species that transmit human diseases have spread and established. The study reveals accelerating introductions since 1950,

For the first time, mosquitoes have been spotted in Iceland following record-breaking spring heat. Three Culiseta annulata were found in Kjós, confirmed by entomologists amid the country’s historically cold climate.

Iceland was one of the only mosquito-free places in the world, at least according to its records. Not anymore.

Mosquitoes have been discovered in Iceland in a first for the island nation, which has long been one of the world's mosquito-free places, a researcher told AFP Monday.