Here is a general answer to the question: Only female mosquitoes take blood meals. Males never do. Males eat plant materials such as nectar. Females do as well. Females are supposed to take blood meals only at a certain point in their lifec...
http://www.bio.net/bionet/mm/parasite/1995-January/0004...
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Does anyone know exactly >what plant materials each of the Anopheline vectors eat (i.e., A. >gambiae)? I should think this would be important and it might provide >clues for: 1) trapping mosquitoes and 2) site-specific insecticide >application. ... Previous message: What do mosquitoes eat?
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Mosiquito larvae eat vegeatble matter floating in stagnent or still water. Mature mosquitoes vary in their diet as females must eat blood for it's eggs and males suck the juices out of plants.
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_do_mosquitoes_eat
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Want to find out more about; mosquitoes? ... 4. Mosquitoes eat all sorts of things ... They eat all sorts of things...
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www.control-mosquitoes.com/
www.control-mosquitoes.com/
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These insects eat plant nectar. Nectar is a sweet-tasting liquid that plants make. Girl mosquitoes will also drink blood from animals and people.
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If mosquitoes aren't sucking the blood out of me or some other helpless victim, what do they eat to survive? ... With no blood in their diets, male mosquitoes subsist mainly on plant nectar. (Females eat plant nectar, too.)
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Here's a whole site about mosquitoes. I'm providing the link to the page the quote below comes from (general biology of mosquitoes), but you can go to the top of that page to get back to their mosquito home page with even more information. ...
http://www.physicsforums.com/showthread.php?t=63393
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They eat very tiny plants and animals in the water. After they have eaten enough, the wrigglers become a pupa. Inside the pupa, they change from a wriggler into an adult mosquito in less than a week. Some female mosquitoes survive the winter, but many only live for 25 days.
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pelotes.jea.com/AnimalFact/Arthropod/mosquito.htm
pelotes.jea.com/AnimalFact/Arthropod/mosquito.htm
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According to some studies, a single mosquito fish can eat up to 50 mosquito larvae in half an hour and a maximum of 168 in an eight hour period. ... Several specific species of birds eat mosquitoes. ... Some experts estimated that one bat can eat between 600 to 1000 insects, mosquitoes included, within a period of one hour.
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www.mosquito-netting.com/predators.html
www.mosquito-netting.com/predators.html
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