Researchers at Kyushu University have found that when azuki bean beetles infected with Wolbachia bacteria are exposed to a ...

When fruit flies are infected with the Wolbachia bacteria, their sex lives—and ability to reproduce—change dramatically.

For more information about this research, see "Wolbachia infection facilitates adaptive increase in male egg size in response to environmental changes," Eloïse Leroy, Siyi Gao, Maya Gonzalez ...

But Wolbachia could move into other species, too: The WolBloc team has had some early success in preventing malaria transmission by mosquitoes infected with Wolbachia.

For more than a year now, a group of environmental organizations have been dropping biodegradable containers of mosquitoes ...

Wolbachia in the lab Russell focuses on Wolbachia because it and its fruit fly hosts are relatively easy to keep alive and reproduce in the lab. Oftentimes when scientists study bacteria, their ...

The Wolbachia bacterium is ubiquitous in nature: It can be found in as many as 60 percent of insect species, from butterflies and wasps, to bees, dragonflies, and some species of mosquito.

An adult Wolbachia-infected Aedes aegypti mosquito is seen under a microscope at the insectarium of Universitas Gajah Mada in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, Dec. 8, 2023. Dasril Roszandi—Anadolu/Getty ...

Project Wolbachia now covers about 352,000 households, which is about 25 per cent of all households in Singapore, said Dr Ng. This is more than double the 160,000 households covered in the middle ...

One kind, known as Wolbachia, is already found in Maui mosquitoes and it alters their reproductive cells. When two insects both have the same strain of Wolbachia, they can successfully reproduce.

These wasps may be inhabited by a bacteria, Wolbachia, which turns nearly all wasps in a population female. It turns out they force male eggs to become female thanks to sex — determining genes ...