Ecuadorean city has lots of stingers

Usage examples of mosquitoes.

They eat ants, aphids, cutworms, flies, moths, mosquitoes, slugs, snails, spider mites, termites and many other pests.

When habitats for bats were deliberately created in San Antonio, Texas, in 1917, the bats practically eliminated malarial mosquitoes from the area.

Rubbing apple cider vinegar on exposed skin is said to deter mosquitoes for a short while.

One bat may eat up to four thousand mosquitoes in a night - that's a lot of prevented mosquito bites!

Throughout most of this century, mosquitoes have spread malaria, yellow fever and encephalitis to millions of people each year.

Delicate, slender, lightweight members of the fly family, mosquitoes weigh in at 0.

The mosquitoes will spend their next two stages of life in the water as wrigglers (larvae) and tumblers (pupae).

More than eighty million dollars are spent in North America annually to control mosquitoes, often adding toxins to the environment without reducing the mosquito populations.

Frogs eat mosquitoes and flying termites as well as standard garden pests.

It sounds unlikely, but a dragonfly was once reported to have had as many as one hundred mosquitoes in its basket of legs at one time.

There were even exchanges of visits, which were salutary, for the returning villagers boasted with per­verse pride, “Our mosquitoes are twice as fierce as theirs.

There were no marshes in which mosquitoes could breed, but enough deep salt water to produce oysters and crabs.

We have no great riches, and our mosquitoes are twice the size of yours and three times more ferocious.

The marsh and the fast land were legally his, four hundred acres of the former, nearly eight hundred of the latter, and he was determined that nothing, neither winter blizzards nor summer mosquitoes, would ever dispossess him.

But the medicine which made life among the mosquitoes bearable was the new one called simply “the bark.