from where do mosquitoes get nourishment? (other than humans)?
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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.\n\nFemales suck blood from any mammal before laying her eggs.
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It adapted in what it eats.  Before agriculture was introduced to Hawaii it only ate native insects.  After farmers came there was an abundance of non-native insects and it adapted to eat those as well.  This is the only adaptation I could find.
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EARTHWORMS.  THEY FEED ON DECAYING PLANTS, DIGEST IT AND FERTILIZE THE SOIL WITH THEIR EXCREMENT.  ALSO, THE ":SLIME" THEY SECRETE ALSO KEEPS THE SOIL MOIST.
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First of all, it would be "do mosquitos spread AIDS? Why?" (I'm sorry, but I'm a grammer freak and stuff like that bug me) Then, to answer your question, no, they do not. The amounts of blood in a mosquito are too small to carry the virus and even then they suck in blood for the most part.
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Mosquito: 1-2 mg\nHouse Fly: 20 - 40 mg\n\nThese are extrapolated from the references below. You should get more confirmation from other sources.
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Yep - you can obtain it from :\n\nhttp://www.mosquitone.co.uk
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Yes.  Haven't you noticed there are less flies in winter?  Mosquitoes lava needs water to develop so you get tons of mozzies after a good rain.  Bettles live in the ground until summer brings them up to the surface.  Its all about the seasons, insect life cycles and food availability.\n\nGood luck with you assignment.
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Different pathological functions in the mosquito.  Insects get sick from different diseases than humans.
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when the mosquito bites, their proboscis (the straw-like feeding device) penetrates the skin up to the subcutaneous layer of the skin beneath the dermis. When this happens, an inflammation occurs. The basophilic and mast cells (type of white blood cell) is stimulated to release HISTAMINE which contracts the smooth muscles. Since WBC uses glucose as source of energy, lactic acid is produced from glucose. Lactic acid plus the contraction of the smooth muscles plus interleukin produced by WBC gives you the ITCHINESS. The increased flow of blood in the area causes REDNESS and increase plasma concentration causes SWELLING. \n\nAnd thats how a mosquito bite itch.
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I can't remember where I saw this, but years ago in graduate school, I'm pretty sure I read that HIV can only survive for 2-6 minutes outside its human host. I don't know abou the one-way blood flow thing with mosquitos. All I know is mosquitos can transmit many other diseases, so it would make sense that they too could transmit HIV, other than HIV can't survive the intermediary.
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Mosquitos don't care to much about how cold it gets in their dormant phase, so long as there is some warm time for their active phase\n\nI have been savaged by Mosquitos in Alaska a couple of hundred miles north of Anchorage.\n\nI assume there are some of the little buggers that come out for the brief summer in Nome.
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There is no scientific evidence to support this. \nAccording to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), mosquitoes do not inject blood when they bite. As a result, mosquitoes do not transmit the virus. What they do inject is an itch-inducing saliva that acts as a lubricant to aid blood extraction, but it does not carry the virus.\n\nYellow fever and malaria can be transmitted through the saliva, but HIV does not reproduce in insects, so the virus doesn't survive in the mosquito long enough to be transmitted in the saliva.
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Mosquitoes can ingest up to three times or more than their own body weight in blood. This is normally about 5 microliters.
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It is 100% immpossible to get HIV from mosquito.\n\nHIV transmitted by unprotected sex, needle sharing, needle stick,unscreened boold transfusion, vertically (during delivery to newborn), breastfeeding.\n\ncasual contact (like kissing) NEVER transmit it.\n\nOther diseases transmitted by mosquito are\nDengue fever\nyellow fever\nEncephalitis(western equine/eastern equine/california/rift valley/japenese/venezuelan equine etc.)\n\nAnd finally malaria is not caused by a virus rather a parasitic infection by Plasmodium.\n\nHope you get it.
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They eat small bits of aquatic plants, larva of mosquito and other insects.
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Mosquitos breed in standing water. It doesn`t have to do with cleanliness. There is rain, and there is a monsoon season that makes puddles last long enough for mosquitos to breed and multiply. Natural water sources can also be a breeding ground for mosquitos if the water is still enough.
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Mosquitoes Need Water: All mosquitoes have four stages of development-egg, larva, pupa, and adult-and spend their larval and pupal stages in water. The females of some mosquito species deposit eggs on moist surfaces, such as mud or fallen leaves, that may be near water but dry. Later, rain or high tides reflood these surfaces and stimulate the eggs to hatch into larvae. The females of other species deposit their eggs directly on the surface of still water in such places as ditches, street catch basins, tire tracks, streams that are drying up, and fields or excavations that hold water for some time. This water is often stagnant and close to the home in discarded tires, ornamental pools, unused wading and swimming pools, tin cans, bird baths, plant saucers, and even gutters and flat roofs. The eggs deposited on such waters soon hatch into larvae. In the hot summer months, larvae grow rapidly, become pupae, and emerge one week later as flying adult mosquitoes. A few important spring species have only one generation per year. However, most species have many generations per year, and their rapid increase in numbers becomes a problem