Female mosquitoes chomp. They need the protein that creatures and human blood give to deliver their eggs. A female mosquito will frequently burn through more than her load in blood. Male mosquitoes feed just on nectar from plants.

Mosquitoes, like all insects, are cold-blooded creatures. As a result, their body temperatures are the same as their surroundings. In temperate climates, adult mosquitoes become inactive with the onset of cool weather and enter hibernation to live through the winter. In spring, the females emerge from hibernation, find a blood meal and lay their eggs.

All mosquitoes bring on with a four-stage life cycle: egg, hatchlings, insect, and grown-up. They can’t fly until they’ve arrived at the grown-up stage, which can require ten to twenty days, contingent upon the varieties.