Only female mosquitoes bite, and they use our blood as protein for their eggs. Mosquitoes use their proboscis, or part of their mouth, to cut the skin and get to the capillaries or veins to fill ...

Female mosquitoes possess a tube-like mouthpart known as a proboscis. They use this to pierce the skin of humans and animals to draw blood. They use the nutrients from the host blood to produce eggs.

A mosquito homes in on you by sensing the proximity of blood from your sweat, your breath, your warmth. Her feeding apparatus, that elaborate proboscis, is a multipart marvel with a skin-piercing ...

As mosquitoes and mosquito-borne illnesses like dengue fever spread across the world, researchers say that a key strategy to prevent these illnesses may be dissuading the insects from biting their ...

Even a piece of trash can hold enough. At first glance, it looks simple — this mosquito digging her proboscis into us. But the tools she’s using here are sophisticated. First, a protective sheath ...