The mosquito bites one person or animal with malaria, takes the parasite on board, flies off to another victim, bites and implants the parasite, which proceeds to multiply like crazy, sickening if not killing its victims.
Some would say a mosquito is worth one hundred trillion dollars (and if you were marooned alone on the moon, and suddenly a mosquito appeared, I believe that little guy would be worth all the galaxies in the universe, in terms of biological companionship).
Instead they sat everywhere else, counting my mosquito bites: One hundred and one.
When we got one mosquito net, the whole village would preserve that for the kids, to be the ones under that mosquito net, and grownups had to stay out.
By this point last year officials there had discovered nine birds that had been killed by West Nile virus and not one infected mosquito.
But Aedas sollicitans, a big aggressive salt-water mosquito, shouldn't really be one of those species.
The boss of the Virgin business empire owns two of the smaller British Virgin Islands (BVI), and planned to have lemurs living in the forest on one of them, Moskito (also Mosquito) Island.
Dr. O'BROCHTA: Well, because malaria is so dependent upon the mosquito for its transmission there are a number of ways one can think about attacking it as a problem.
It was very scary ... we spent last night in the jungle on one of the highest points on the Island, swatting mosquito's and trying to calm our fears, which we have not.
One benefit of this drought, he says, is that mosquito and other perennial pest populations are down.
One of the guys that I worked with went through a little jug of mosquito spray.
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