MosquitoMosquitoes are insects belonging to the order Diptera;
genera include Anopheles, Culex, Psorophora, Ochlerotatus,
Aedes, Sabethes, Wyeomyia, Culiseta, and Haemagoggus for a total
of around 35 genera into which are placed about 2700 species.
They have two scaled wings, halteres, a slender body, and long
legs; size varies but is rarely greater than 15 mm. Anopheles
gambiae mosquito; a widespread vector of malaria. In most female
mosquitoes the mouth parts form a long proboscis for piercing
the skin of mammals (or in some cases birds or ever reptiles and
amphibians) to suck their blood. The females require protein for
egg development, and since the normal mosquito diet consists of
nectar and fruit juice, which has no protein, most must drink
blood to get the necessary protein. Males differ from females,
with mouth parts not suitable for blood sucking. Oddly females
of one genus of mosquitoes, Toxorhynchites, never drinks blood.
The larvae of the large mosquito are predatory on other mosquito
larvae. The