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Male mosquitoes feed on flower nectar. Blood contains the nutrients required for the female to lay eggs. When she isn't reproducing, the female mosquito will also feed on flower nectar.
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∙ 12y agoThey eat nectar from plants - only the females eat blood.
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∙ 12y agoonly female mosquitoes bite cause they need the blood as nutrients for the eggs
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What do female mosquitoes do that male mosquitoes can not do?
bite
What is the food of the mosquitoes?
If the mosquito is female, then it drinks blood. That's only to give energy to the developing eggs inside it. But if the mosquito is male, then it eats fruit. The male ones are the gigantic mosquitoes that look like there going to kill you.
What eats the cow?
people and mosquitoes .....mosquitoes.....that would certainly be a sight to see in a lifetime.
Which animal eats mostly mosquitoes?
bats
Do the male or female mosquitoes bite or is it both?
The female bites, she needs a 'blood meal' before she lays eggs. It is only the female mosquitoes that bite.
What type of food eaten by mosquito?
the female mosquitoes drink human bloods while the male sucks fruit saps while the larvae eats little of plankton
What do female mosquitoes feed on?
insects.insects.insects.
What is a mosquito's prey?
Mosquitoes do not technically have "prey" as they are parasites, not predators. Female adult mosquitoes require a blood meal, usually from a mammal, to create their eggs. Male and immature female mosquitoes feed only on flower nectar.
Is sexual dimorphism distinct in mosquitoes?
Adult female mosquitoes tend to be larger than males. Male mosquitoes have plumose (feather-like or "fuzzy" antennae) and longer palps. Behaviorally, male and female mosquitoes are also distinct in some ways. For example, only female mosquitoes take blood meals. Males subsist only on plant juices. Mosquitoes are also protandrous, meaning that the males tend to emerge as adults before females.
What cased malaria in the Panama Canal?
Female Mosquitoes
Are the mosquitoes attracted to the person who eats bananas?
No they are no, they are actually attracted to light and heat.
What eats mosquitoes gnats and flies?
Bats, and birds like the Flycatcher.
