10/10/2026
Some good info on Mosquitoes
Do mosquitoes only drink blood?
As adults, both male and female mosquitoes feed on flower nectar for water and energy. Females will also use their needle-like mouth (a proboscis) part to suck blood from other animals. Only the females can suck blood; the males have forked proboscises that can’t pierce skin.
Females use the nutrients from blood to nourish the eggs they carry. Without a blood meal, females normally can’t lay eggs. She finds her blood meal by first sensing CO2, then heat and smell with their antennae. Females spit saliva on the skin to numb it and to prevent the host's blood from thickening. Then, she digs her proboscis into the skin and finds a blood vessel.