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It can run from about a month or two up north, to as much as nine or ten months down south. Depends on climate and temp. Usually spring to fall. In the spring Alaska has what we call break up. This is where the ice starts melting and the rivers and creeks start flowing again. Mosquitos are usually out right after that.

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Mosquitos feed on blood. When they bite they inject some fluids into the site to keep the blood from clotting (and which later cause the itchy hive). Some infections, such as malaria, can get into the mosquito when it drinks the blood of an infected person; the germ migrates to the glands that produce the anticoagulant, and then is injected into the blood of the next person bitten. The mosquito is a vector for many diseases. Malaria, dengue and yellow fever are spread like this by mosquitoes.

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When mosquitoes bite a person they secret saliva mixed with plasmodium, at the same time they suck blood, they enter the blood stream, enter the red blood cells, multiply inside the cells which causes the breakdown of the RBC's, this mechanisms produces fever, depending on the type of infecting parasite the fever will be every 2 to 3 days.

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According to my grandma Sadie (born & raised in Florida) they are the same thing.

Well, they can be.

"Mosquito hawk" is what we call a "common name", or an "informal name"; it is what people call any particular animal or plant in a particular place or time. It need not be correct, for example a mosquito is not a hawk and not a mosquito and it means different things in different places, and in a lot of places it means nothing at all because lots of people don't use the name. Common names are useful because they enable people in a particular place to talk about animals and plants and more or less understand each other most of the time, but they also are confusing because most animals and plants have no common names at all, most those that do have common names have more than one even in the same language, some in different places. Most common names also apply to more than one animal or plant. And a lot of common names have wrong meanings.

"Formal" or "scientific" names may be a bit harder to use in many ways, but they do better than common names in some of those ways.

For example, in some places a mosquito hawk is a Crane fly (also called a "daddy long legs". See what I mean about common names?). A crane fly is not a mosquito (though it , not a hawk, and doesn't hawk mosquitoes. It is a member of the fly Family Tipulidae, and that is a name that an insect scientist (entomologist) will recognise in any language in any place in the world.

In some places a mosquito hawk is indeed a dragonfly as grandma Sadie rightly said. It also is neither a mosquito nor a hawk, but it does catch mosquitoes in the air; it "hawks" them all right.

In some places a mosquito hawk is a damselfly. Damselflies are very closely related to dragonflies, and like dragonflies, damselflies are neither hawks nor mosquitoes, but do hawk mosquitoes. Most people who call dragonflies mosquito hawks also call damselflies mosquito hawks. Both are in the order Odonata, and again, an entomologist in any country should know the name Odonata, and what it means.

Crane flies are in the order Diptera and therefore are practically unrelated to dragonflies and damselflies.

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YES=Yes there are. I should know, I've been living there my whole life and I get bitten by 20 each year.=

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yes!!! we were in Kauai on Poipu Beach area and i was bitten several times even with repellant! My husband was bit dozens of times on his feet and ankles while dining at the Tidepools Restaurant at the Hyatt!! So do go prepared with repellant when visiting this very moist and humid island. It did not however prevent us from enjoying this gorgeous island!

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They just are. Period. End of story. :)

Mosquitoes are a menace due to the fact that they spread diseases such as malaria, dengue facer and Japanese encephalitis. Mosquito borne diseases are responsible for more human deaths than all the world wars.

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im not sure,but it is used a lot

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Yes. My mother has been practicing this for many, many years now. Indigenous knowledge? Probably. According to her, this practice is common in their barangay since she was young. She is now 67 years old and she came from a rice farming community in Cagayan Valley. She puts few fresh leaves of pomelo depending on the amount of rice to be poured in our rice dispenser and it works! No bugs in our rice. You just have to change the pomelo leaves every time you put another sack of rice in your dispenser.

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A mosqutio can only bite once. In a few minutes or so the mosquito will have died. Only some species of mosquitos can bite more than once.

The species of mosquito which affect us most by spreading mosquito borne diseases can bite repeatedly until it has satisfied it's blood thirst. A single aedes aegypti may bite several times if disturbed while feeding.

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Your ears are sensitive, when they pass close to your ear, they do not make a noise, your ear simply picks up the sound of their vibrating wings and it is very high pitched because of the speed at which they move to stay airborne.

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Using Coils

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I have no idea how to treat mosquito bites, and I wonder if After-Bite, an ammonia solution, isn't harmful to puppies.

There are so many contradictory "mosquito remedies" online that I don't know what to believe.

Baking soda, vinegar (?), and/or some ice might be a natural remedy? Some sources say tea tree or lavender oil.

Supposedly, if the puppy is carrying heart worm larvae, the mosquito might incubate the larvae and later transmit infectious parasites into the puppy.

It sounds like HIV activating into the AIDS virus, but what makes the larvae mature in the mosquito carrying blood?

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No female mosquitoes lay there eggs on the surface of the water.

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the dragonfly nymph eats mosquitos in all life stages, so you could always overpopulate your front yard with them. In terms of keeping the mosquitos away from you, Walgreenz and other drug stores sell a wide selection of repellents.

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only female mosquitoes bite cause they need the blood as nutrients for the eggs

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No. The females bite you to get blood so they can have their young. Males eat only nectar.

They don't actually bite, they have a complex feeding tube that cuts and then inserts into animal tissue to suck up blood. The blood goes to the stomach, which is in the abdomen. The blood is transformed into free amino acids. These acids are used to make yolks for the larvaes. Go to the links:

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you cant Actually you can. If you put 16 drops of bleach per 1 gallon of water, wait about 30-40 minutes, I am not sure on the time, it will kill anything and the water is now safe to drink. It is a very simple water purifier so to speak also iodine is great for purifying water, it tastes worse than the bleach method.

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Based on personal experience, blood.

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It is sometimes called a clutch.

This is not for animal eggs.

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they can detect heat, blue which is generally a dark color holds heat, making you warmer and easier to detect

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The youngest mosquitoes are larvae, which do not resemble adult mosquitoes. However, after exiting that stage of their life, they resemble small adults.

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"Mosquito" is a name for over 3 species of the family Culicidae.

The average life span for these insects varies greatly between exact species and weather, but typically the females live for 3 to 100 days and the males live for 10 to 20 days.

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First they are born in the water and eat bugs as they grow they begin to fly and drank any blood they can find like little VAMPIRES