What are mosquitoes?

Question

What are mosquitoes?

Answer 1

Mosquitoes are members of the fly family known as Diptera. Females bite and males drink nectar from flowers. Mosquitoes are responsible for lots of illness in 3rd world countries, one of which is Yellow Fever, and also carry West Nile virus.

Answer 2

There ugly disease carrying blood sucking insects.

Answer 3

Disease carrying insects that won't like you,  if you'll take a B-Complex Vitamin every day.

Answer 4

http://bugguide.net/node/view/11027

Answer 5

Kingdom: Animalia

Phylum: Arthropoda

Class: Insecta

Order: Diptera

Family: Culicidae

(genus and species vary)

Mosquitos are insects that belong to the same order as true flies, which includes house flies, crane flies, robber flies, blow flies, deer flies, etc. etc. Any insect with one pair of wings and a pair of halteres (http://el.erdc.usace.army.mil/aqua/apis/... where the other pair would be.

Both sexes of mosquito drink nectar and plant juices, but the females also suck blood when they need it for reproduction.

They lay eggs in standing water where the larvae live until they pupate and emerge to fly out as adults.

Different species are known to be vectors for several diseases harmful to humans so mosquito control is becoming more important in many places.

To keep mosquitos out of your yard you should make sure to dump any standing water after a rain and anything you can do to keep natural enemies around is a good thing.

That's all the information I can think to give you right now, but it should be enough to get you started.

Answer 6

Blood thirsty bugs

Answer 7

Mosquitoes family Culicidae. They have a pair of scaled wings, a pair of halteres, a slender body, and long legs. The females of most mosquito species suck blood (hematophagy) from other animals, which has made them the most deadly disease vectors known, killing millions of people over thousands of years and continuing to kill millions per year by the spread of diseases.

Length varies but is rarely greater than 16 mm (0.6 inch)[3], and weight up to 2.5 mg (0.04 grain). A mosquito can fly for 1 to 4 hours continuously at up to 1–2 km/h travelling up to 10 km in a night. Most species are nocturnal or crepuscular (dawn or dusk) feeders. During the heat of the day most mosquitoes rest in a cool place and wait for the evenings. They may still bite if disturbed.