Lucas Bustamante / Mosquito (Culicidae) feeding on the back of an Equatorial anole (Anolis aequatorialis) Mindo, Pichincha, Ecuador.

Ingo Arndt / Mosquito (Culicidae) freshly hatched sitting on water surface with reflection, Germany.

Ingo Arndt / Mosquito (Culicidae) egg faft floating on surface of water, Germany

Piotr Naskrecki / Yellow Fever Mosquito (Aedes aegypti) female feeding on human blood, Gorongosa National Park, Mozambique

Stephen Dalton / Mosquito (Aedes sp) in flight

Stephen Dalton / Mosquito (Culicidae) newly emerged adult on water's surface

Stephen Dalton / Mosquito (Culicidae) female feeding on human blood, controlled conditions

Rolf Nussbaumer / Mosquito larvae {Culicidae} Switzerland

Rolf Nussbaumer / Mosquito hatching from larval case {Culicidae} Switzerland

Ernie Janes / Mosquito (Culiseta / Theobaldia annulata) sucking blood from human hand.

Ernie Janes / Mosquito (Culiseta / Theobaldia annulata) sucking blood from human hand.

Nick Upton / Mosquito larvae (Culicidae), filter feeding in a garden pond with the breathing tubes at the ends of their abdomens reaching the surface, Wiltshire, UK, June.