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

But Wolbachia isn’t naturally found in the mosquito species that cause humans the most problems — the Aedes aegypti, the virus carrier, and the Anopheles subspecies, which carry malaria.

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

For her appearance on The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week, Casey shared an excerpt of her book that challenges the narrow ...

Wolbachia -based protocols for insect control have been used in countries across the globe for more than a decade, and in many cases, they have reduced the incidence of mosquito-related disease.

The world's weirdest bacteria might just be this one. Image an organism causing sex changes to whoever it infects. Truth is stranger than fiction.

New research led at UC Santa Cruz reveals how the bacteria strain Wolbachia pipientis enhances the fertility of the insects it infects, an insight that could help scientists increase the populations ...

Hawaii's unique birds, known as honeycreepers, are being wiped out by mosquitoes carrying avian malaria. The birds' last hope could be more mosquitoes, designed to crash their own population.

Scientists have uncovered how bacteria borrowed a gene from an insect to create female-only parasitic wasp populations, eliminating the need for males.

Researchers find that azuki bean beetles, a common pest, produce larger eggs yielding male offspring when infected with Wolbachia bacteria under elevated temperature and carbon dioxide conditions ...

As the lab-raised mosquitoes breed with other mosquitoes, Wolbachia spreads through the mosquito population, making them decidedly less deadly.

TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - The utilization of the Wolbachia method to control dengue is running into challenges, especially in terms of disseminating information about the method to the community. Director ...