Life cycle of mosquito

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Mosquito is “an any of a family Culicidae of dipteran flies with females that have a set of slender organs in the proboscis adapted to puncture the skin of animals and to suck their blood and that are in some cases vectors of serious diseases” (Merriam - Webster). There are more than 2500 species of mosquito in this world and each of the species carries a specific name based on their feature and to be able to distinguish one species from another, for example, Curex tursalis. Each species has their own unique environmental prerequisite for their live continuation. The mosquito feeding habit is also different when the female mosquito only bites man and animals for blood whereas male mosquito feed themselves only with a plant juice. The species also determined the flight habit of the mosquito. For example, the domestic species fly mostly in their point of origin, meanwhile, the migration species of mosquito, frequently fly far away from their breeding places. The flight range also different for male and female mosquito as female mosquito fly longer than male mosquito. The life cycle of the mosquito according to the American Mosquito Control Association (2014), consist of four processes, which are, laying eggs, emerge into larva, grow to be pupa, and become an adult mosquito. This process usually takes place in an early April (refer to Appendix 1).
The first life cycle of a mosquito is laying eggs. This task is done by the female mosquito. The female mosquito feed on man and animals because she needs to has a sufficient blood meal in order to lay eggs later. The eggs are laid one at a time and they float on the water. The water is an essential substance for mosquito to complete their life cycle. The water can vary from snow water u...

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...st stage mosquito lifecycle is adult. During this stage process, adult mosquito completed takes two or three days depend to the temperature (Clements, 2000). Adult mosquito starts float on the water surface and begin to swallow air when the adult is totally formed within the pupa cuticle (Clements, 2000). Adult mosquito has lengthened body and long wings and legs. It’s for the movement of solid bodies through air in stable form. The adult female and male mosquito use the sugar in plant juices as a source of energy. Adult female mosquito has a requirement for protein to develop a large total of eggs. For that purpose, adult female mosquito start engorges on human and animal blood. This adult mosquito has perforated the skin of animal and human with cavity and sucks a blood (Reece et al., 2011). Thereafter, the mosquito lifecycle will start again from the beginning.

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