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  2. Anautogeny - Wikipedia

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    A female Anopheles minimus mosquito obtaining a blood meal from a human host to support its anautogenous reproduction.. In entomology, anautogeny is a reproductive strategy in which an adult female insect must eat a particular sort of meal (generally vertebrate blood) before laying eggs in order for her eggs to mature. [1]

  3. Are some people mosquito magnets? Here’s what experts say - AOL

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    Mosquitoes — more specifically, female mosquitoes since they're the only ones who bite and need protein found in blood so their eggs can develop — use a variety of different cues to locate ...

  4. Insect mouthparts - Wikipedia

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    Mouthparts of a female mosquito feeding on blood. The flexible labium supports the bundle of stylets which penetrates the host's skin. In female mosquitoes, all mouthparts are elongated. The labium encloses all other mouthparts, the stylets, like a sheath. The labrum forms the main feeding tube, through which blood is sucked.

  5. Mosquito-borne disease - Wikipedia

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    Mosquito borne diseases are indirectly contagious, a mosquito needs to get infected from biting a patient first than transfer it to the next thus, they both need to be in the general area. Mosquito control measures during the Panama canal construction provide the only successful case study of reducing from outbreak status s to zero-malaria and ...

  6. Why do mosquito bites itch? What to know about these blood ...

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    When a female mosquito bites you and sucks your blood, it leaves behind saliva in your bloodstream. Your body reacts to this saliva secretion as an allergen, causing your body to react with a bump ...

  7. Hematophagy - Wikipedia

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    An Anopheles stephensi mosquito obtaining a blood meal from a human host through its pointed proboscis. Note the droplet of blood being expelled from the engorged abdomen. This mosquito is a malarial vector with a distribution that ranges from Egypt to China. A bedbug Two butterflies of the genus Erebia sucking fresh blood from a sock

  8. Hate mosquitoes? Coconut scents could help keep them away ...

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    Only female mosquitoes seek out blood, and only after they mate, when they need its nutrients for their eggs to develop. The rest of the time they feed on sweetly scented flowers.

  9. Culicinae - Wikipedia

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    The mosquitoes also have long, slender, legs and proboscis-style mouth parts for feeding on vertebrate blood or plant fluids. Only the females are blood feeders, requiring a high quality protein meal before they can oviposit. Because the mosquitoes are well adapted for finding hosts, the females can move quickly from one blood meal to another ...