Crossword clues for mosquitoes
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Mosquito \Mos*qui"to\ (m[o^]s*k[=e]*t[-o]), n.; pl. Mosquitoes (m[o^]s*k[=e]*t[=o]z). [Sp. mosquito, fr. moscafly, L. musca. Cf. Musket.] (Zo["o]l.) Any one of various species of gnats of the genus Culex and allied genera. The females have a proboscis containing, within the sheathlike labium, six fine, sharp, needlelike organs with which they puncture the skin of man and animals to suck the blood. These bites, when numerous, cause, in many persons, considerable irritation and swelling, with some pain. The larv[ae] and pup[ae], called wigglers, are aquatic.
Mosquito bar, Mosquito net, a net or curtain for excluding mosquitoes, -- used for beds and windows.
Mosquito fleet, a fleet of small vessels.
Mosquito hawk (Zo["o]l.), a dragon fly; -- so called because it captures and feeds upon mosquitoes.
Mosquito netting, a loosely-woven gauzelike fabric for making mosquito bars.
Wiktionary
n. (plural of mosquito English)
WordNet
n. two-winged insect whose female has a long proboscis to pierce the skin and suck the blood of humans and animals
[also: mosquitoes (pl)]
See mosquito
Wikipedia
Mosquitoes is a satiric novel by the American author William Faulkner. The book was first published in 1927 by the New York-based publishing house Boni & Liveright and is the author’s second novel. Sources conflict regarding whether Faulkner wrote Mosquitoes during his time living in Paris, beginning in 1925 or in Pascagoula, Mississippi in the summer of 1926. It is, however, widely agreed upon that not only its setting, but also its content clearly reference Faulkner’s personal involvement in the New Orleans creative community where he spent time before moving to France.
The city of New Orleans and a yacht on Lake Pontchartrain are the two primary settings for the novel. Beginning and ending in the city, the story follows a diverse cast of artists, aesthetes, and adolescents as they embark on a four-day excursion aboard the motorized yacht, the Nausikaa, owned by a wealthy patron of the arts.
The novel is organized into six sections: a prologue which introduces the characters, four body sections each of which documents a day of the yacht trip hour-by-hour, and an epilogue which returns the characters, changed or unchanged, to their lives off the boat.
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.