What is a mosquito?

Answer 1

Mosquitoes are little bugs that bite. The females live on blood the males may drink blood but the do not live on it as females do. They are pest but they are here for a reason, that I can not tell you.

Answer 2

Only the female mosquito bites us. Our blood contains something called isoleucine which she needs for making eggs

Human blood is not even the best source for isoleucine. Buffalo blood and blood from rats contains more of it, but people outnumber rats and buffaloes in most places so they bite us instead. So our blood is necessary for their survival

When the female mosquito lands on us she pierces our skin with her mouth and sucks up our blood until she's full. She can swallow up to four times her weight in blood! In the same time she also injects a small amount of saliva. This saliva works as an anesthetic; it numbs the skin a bit and also stops the blood from clotting

Our body's defense system reacts to the proteins in her saliva which result in the familiar itching and bumps


Mosquito bites are soft and, in the beginning, pale bump or swelling on your skin that can become red. They can appear immediately or up to two days and they can last from a few hours up to 10 days

The itching normally lasts longer than the swelling. If you're more sensitive to the bites of mosquitoes the area where it itches may be larger

Answer 3

A mosquito is a slender long-legged fly with aquatic larvae. The bite of the bloodsucking female can transmit a number of serious diseases including malaria and encephalitis.

Answer 4

Try, "swarm"

Answer 5

They are bugs. That fly.