How long can mosquitos live?
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A mosquito can live 1 month if it has enough blood each day but if it hasn't it can only live 1 day.
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It is extremely unlikely.  The reason is because Mosquitos are are not part of the HIV life cycle.  In order for a person to actually be infected, the Mosquito would have to first take blood from an infected individual (who is at the stage when enough HIV particles are present in blood) and it would then have to get into the Mosquito's saliva and survive until the Mosquito went to bite another individual.  Again extremely unlikely.
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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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Why do mosquitoes bite?\nMosquitoes belong to a group of insects that requires blood to develop fertile eggs. Males do not lay eggs, thus, male mosquitoes do not bite. The females are the egg producers and "host-seek" for a blood meal. Female mosquitoes lay multiple batches of eggs and require a blood meal for every batch they lay. Few people realize that mosquitoes rely on sugar as their main source of energy. Both male and female mosquitoes feed on plant nectar, fruit juices, and liquids that ooze from plants. The sugar is burned as fuel for flight and is replenished on a daily basis. Blood is reserved for egg production and is imbibed less frequently.
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Some Butterflies do have a very short lifespan but not 1 day, unless killed. Remember their main role in the life cycle is to breed and lay eggs. Most Butterflies can achieve mating and egg laying within a in a  10 - 14 day period and would die soon after. Males usually die a couple of days earlier than the female Other Butterflies, particularly the fruit eating ones, have a much longer adult life span of sometimes weeks and months. The Monarch Butterfly is a migratory species and the adult life span is approximately 9-10 months.
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I live in Asia, and the TV advertisements teach people to clean and dry out any container holding water at least twice a week. People here are very wary of mosquitoes and the diseases they carry. It's a real problem.\n\nBut, keep thinking ~ you never know what you might invent! You obviously have a creative mind...\n\ngood luck...
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I guess about a maximum of 2 years. Of course it depends on the living conditions and food supplies (flies).
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Yes, insects can survive under water for a very long time.  One way is by trapping air in their body hair.  Most insects and arachnids are covered with fine hairs.  When under water, air becomes trapped among them.  This air can support the bug for a long time.\n\nThe waste pipes in your home are mostly empty.  Beyond the bowl the pipes are not full of water.  They are full of air.  Therefore once the water flows away the bug has an empty pipe upon which it can attach itself.\n\nSo the question of surviving underwater becomes moot.  There is no water to worry about.\n\nFlushing an insect or an arachnid (spiders are not insects they are arachnids) is not absolute or certain death.
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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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no\n\nI won't paste the entire article here, but you can read it...\n\nhere:\n\nhttp://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~insects/aids.htm\n\nWhy Mosquitoes Cannot Transmit AIDS\nby Wayne J. Crans, Associate Research Professor in Entomology\nRutgers Cooperative Extension Fact Sheet # FS736
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Is your mosquitoe ill?? I dont understand.
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Mosquitos, with all their diseases and whatnot.
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You can prevent them by wearing mosquito repellant or by not wearing any sweet scented fragrances and stay away from standing water because that is where mosquitos live. As far as getting rid if them I don't know, but you can prevent them from getting bigger and infected by not scratching them (which is hard to do).
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Well depending on the species and how long ago its last meal was, it can live for anywhere from a few days to possibly a month or more. Spiders arent always sucessful predators and are commonly seen going several weeks without food, plus, if a spider can get in behind there, there is a good chance that many insects can get in there too, many of the ones you dont see in your house......I wont scare you with that too....you have enough of a problem with the spider!\n\nhaha, hope this helps!
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Mosquitoes tend not to fly very high, as it makes them susceptible to the elements.  They usually prefer guerrilla tactics, hiding in vegetation, flying out when a blood meal is close.  \n\nAnother thing is that mosquitoes rarely swarm.  When you see a swarm of "mosquito-like" insects flying up in the air, 9 out of 10 times they are MIDGES, a small insect that somewhat resembles the mosquito.
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There are about 150,000 described species of flies, you should really narrow down this question a little. Some flies in higher latitudes and higher altitudes can live for a couple years, this is mostly due tothe fact that thier development is typically slower in colder climates. Certain other flies can live only a couple of days
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I don't think they live long enough to get cancer, the average house fly only lives for 17 days, but who knows? maybe they do, I just don't think anyone out there is doing any studies on it