Mosquitoes don't need your blood for food; most mosquito nutrition comes from flower nectar.
Only the female mosquito bites.
The average mosquito consumes one millionth of a gallon of blood per night. At that rate it would take about 1,120,000 bites to drain the blood from an average adult human.
A mosquito can bite more than once. A female goes out for a blood meal whenever she needs protein for her eggs. She can feed multiple times and usually makes between one and three batches of eggs during her lifecycle.
Mosquito larvae are cannibals. If the mosquito larvae are crowded the larger, older larva will eat the smaller, freshly hatched larvae.
Mosquitoes have been consuming blood for about 2 million years.
A female mosquito can lay as many as several hundred eggs in one batch
Citronella candles should never be lit indoors; the chemical that drives mosquitoes away is also harmful to your health.
Early Spanish expeditions to the Americas led by Hernando De Soto felt the wrath of mosquitoes. Half of his men never made it off of American soil because of mosquito-borne disease.
Sir Patrick Manson (1844-1922) made the first assertion that mosquitoes transmit malaria.
Sir Ronald Ross (1857-1932) won the 1902 Nobel Prize for proving that mosquitoes transmit malaria.
Carlos Juan Finlay (1833-1915) in 1881 suggested that mosquito was the carrier of yellow fever, and then later specified the correct species, Aedes aegypti.
Walter Reed (1851-1902) Reed proved Finaly's theory of mosquitoes as the carrier of yellow fever.
Mosquitoes can't eat too much. If a mosquito gets too bloated with blood to fly away from her victim, she releases a little ballast to help her become airborne. She does this by emptying out the mosquito equivalent to a bladder. In essence she piddles on you.