Mosquitoes

it breathes not breaths

Mosquitos are most prevalent during hot and humid months. For particular times in the day, mosquitos attack the most around dawn and dusk.

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:

When a mosquito bites into you it leaves it saliva and when it is done or disturbed the saliva is still in you. Once the body's immune systems get at the saliva it produces many antibodies in which attach to the saliva. Then the antibodies release histamine which creates that pinkish,itchy bump where the mosquito bit you.

Bugs that feed on blood are sandfly, blackfly, tsetse fly, bedbugs, assassin bugs, mosquitoes, ticks, lice, mites, midges, leeches and fleas. The bugs that commonly feed on human blood, especially at home, are mosquitoes, beg bugs, lice and triatomine bugs

Rub toothpaste on it *an old pioneer trick* believe it or not...

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Insects are found very high in the atmosphere. The are only limited to the altitude that oxygen is still available. We have to use oxygen tanks above 26000-27000 feet. Insects are much smaller and can probably go a little bit higher. Weather balloons have found skeletons of dead insects as high as 45000 feet. I dont think they fly this high because the temperature is at or near freezing.

No. The bite is localized and will fade in a day or so.

'Wrigglers' is what mosquito larvae are called. They like to hang upside down just under the water's surface. That's because they breathe through a tube that's in their tails. They often find it difficult to stay still in this position.

There are two species from the insect order of Hemipetrawhich are "parasites" in the sense that they feed on the blood of humans usually when we are fast asleep in bed at night. The two species known as Cimex Lectularius(originally from temperate climate areas) and Cimex Rotundatus (originally from tropical climate regions) are closely related. Today because of international air travel, either specy may be found anywhere in the world. This is because people often pick them up when in a tropical country and may unwittingly carry them back in their luggage to where they live perhaps thousands of miles away. Bedbugs have flat oval shaped bodies, very short fore-wings and their mouths have been adapted to pierce people's skin and suck blood out of you. But before starting to do that, it injects an anaesthetic into you to make you go numb round where it is going to bite you and a coagulant to stop the blood coming out of you too fast. That is why you do not usually feel anything neither while it is piercing your skin nor when it inserts a tiny tube into you nor while it is sucking your blood even if you are awake! But in most cases people stay asleep while the bedbugs are feeding off them. Only after the bedbug has left them will the anaesthetic wear off and then you may feel a maddening itch and want to scratch to obtain relief. Each bedbug will be on you having its meal for anything from 2 or 3 minutes to 10 or more minutes. When it has completed its meal it will leave you and crawl back along your sheet. It will then be perhaps 12 times heavier than when it came in because of the additional weight of the blood it now has in its stomach , so will no longer be flat looking but now expanded and reddish coloured, looking rather like a ladybug (ladybird). After its meal it will crawl along your sheet to a hiding place which will be near where you sleep, perhaps in a fold or inside your mattress, in the bed structure, perhaps in the floor under your bed or in nearby furniture or a small crevice in the wall, and unless disturbed during the day, such as by you when you make your bed, it will remain in its hiding place until it comes out for another meal on a subsequent night. If you are unfortunate enough to get a bedbug problem in your bed, there will be many and they are likely to breed and multiply so there will be more and more infesting the bed over time, unless steps are taken to exterminate them, but getting rid of them all by yourself is notoriously difficult.

A bite of a mosquito can possibly transfer a number of parasites to humans and they are the Plasmodium falciparum, P. vivax, P. ovale, and P. malariae. A person bitten by a mosquito infected with any of these parasites can contract a fatal disease called malaria.

Bats are one of nature's most efficient and eco-friendly methods of keeping mosquito populations under control. Just one bat can eat more than 1,000 mosquitoes in an hour.

It works on two levels. The first being it masks the carbon dioxide that is emitted from your skin that the mosquitos are attracted to in the first place. The second, is that there is a chemical called deet in most repellants that is an irritant when the mosquito lands on your skin for a taste.

The female. In brief, the females need blood in order to lay eggs.

they can have up to 30 or more babies at once

Yes because they are special kind of group

Dosen't anyone know? It hatches into a larva , then a pupa, then finally an adult mosquito! Try not to get bitten!

Mosquitoes who are adults breathe through what is called a spiracle. Spiracles are small holes on the sides of the bodies that allow them to breathe. only mosquito larvae breathe with a siphon.

A home remedy for the treatment of the buffalo gnat bite is to apply some calamine lotion and a cold compress on it. If the itching persists, an antihistamine can be taken. Avoid scratching the area as much as possible.

There are several measures you can take to eradicate mosquito larvae, depending on where they are located. Bleach works well if you are not worried about harming anything surrounding the larvae. Baby oil and mineral oil work well too.

Usually nectar, etc.

Mosquitoes need stagnant water to breed and lay their eggs. Thus, by getting rid of stagnant water around your house, yard, and other property, you can prevent mosquitoes from breeding near you.

No, white clothing does not attract mosquitoes. Actually, white clothing repels mosquitoes and other insects away from people. Dark colored clothing will attract mosquitoes.