We are actually going to be using drones to apply larvicide to swamps, hard-to-reach flooded woodlots, and also other hard to ...

A new council program that will use drones to combat a number of diseases that have the capacity to alter people’s lives is ...

SALT LAKE CITY — West Nile virus cases are ticking up in Utah in multiple counties and workers in various districts are trying to quell this problem. They have amped up efforts to keep people and ...

The Utah County Health Department has discovered a new method for managing summer mosquito populations: using drones. In the age-old battle against mosquitoes, Utah County took the fight to the skies.

With mosquito breeding season getting underway, the City is starting its mosquito management program across Greater ...

A giant canvas bag full of seed hangs from a fork lift on the Crop Air tarmac in Eaton. It’s a mix of sorghum, rye, radishes and turnips, weighing in around 2,000 pounds. The fork ...

TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Chinese authorities are using nets, spraying insecticide and even deploying drones to fight the mosquito-borne chikungunya virus, which has infected thousands of people.

In experiments, researchers showed that the disease-spreading insects couldn’t resist the sweet smell of a fungus that infected and killed them.

Authorities in China are fighting to prevent the spread of a mosquito-borne viral disease after thousands of cases were reported in a few weeks. The country has seen nearly 8,000 cases of chikungunya ...