Why do mosquitoes need a meal of blood ?

Answer 1

Only female mosquitoes bite, and all mosquitoes live on the sugar found in plant nectar, not on blood. But there is a reason females seek blood.

Female mosquitoes, unlike males, have a proboscis. This is a long thin needle-like built-in syringe located at the mouth. They use this to impale their victims, in order to fill their abdomens with blood. Proteins in the blood are necessary to produce fertile eggs. Since males cannot produce eggs they have no need for blood. Females require a new blood 'meal' for every nest they lay, and produce about 250 eggs per meal.

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Answer 2

Mosquitos are principally nectar feeders with only the females requiring a meal of blood. The females require protein for egg development, and since the normal mosquito diet consists of nectar and fruit juice, which has no protein, most must drink blood to get the necessary protein. Males differ from females, with mouth parts not suitable for blood sucking.

Answer 3

Why do mosquitos need blood?

Mosquitos drink blood in order to make proteins for their eggs. To make proteins, the mosquito must get amino acids. The mosquito drinks your blood, and breaks up your blood proteins. When it is done, your blood proteins have been broken down into amino acids. These amino acids are then built up into proteins that the mosquito needs to help cells divide. Eggs must divide many times in order to grow into a young mosquito, so they need a lot of protein.

Answer 4

Female mosquitos need meals of blood to reproduce. males feed on the food we usually eat. Like: apples...

Answer 5

Cos the female need the proteins in our blood to produce the eggs

Answer 6

only feamale mosquito suck or blood because it needs our protieb to lay eggs

Answer 7

actually the females need them to produce eggs. The males live on nectar

Answer 8

because thats what they eat

Answer 9

GOD made it like that

Answer 10

because humans are sweet.