Warm weather is here and mosquitoes are on the rise in Australia. Unseasonably large swarms are causing problems in some ...

Melbourne’s spate of muggy, humid weather has created perfect conditions for a nasty mosquito season, an expert has warned.

Southwest Sydney has been taken over by “swarms” of mosquitoes, with the crisis stemming from an outbreak of the weed frogbit at the Sydney Water Water Recycling Plant (WRP) at Warwick Farm.

Brown house mosquitoes were only considered a minor threat to public health in Australia, Webb said, and typically bred in stormwater and wastewater. Other species bred in saltwater or stagnant ...

Researchers say climate change has the potential to increase mosquito numbers and the transmissibility of mosquito-borne diseases. With some people more prone to mosquito bites than others, experts ...

Warm weather is here and mosquitoes are on the rise in Australia. Unseasonably large swarms are causing problems in some parts of Sydney already ...