2006-08-04 15:57:46 · 18 answers · asked by Robert C 1 in Education & Reference ➔ Trivia
True. To feed the baby vampires!
2006-08-04 16:03:16 · answer #1 · answered by Anna M 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋
The females of most species have piercing and sucking mouth parts and apparently they must feed at least once upon mammalian blood before their eggs can develop properly. The males may have beaks, or probosces, but cannot pierce, and they feed upon fruit and plant juices.
In most female mosquitoes, the mouth parts form a long proboscis for piercing the skin of mammals (or in some cases birds or even reptiles and amphibians) to suck their 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. There is one genus of mosquitoes, Toxorhynchites, that never drinks blood.
2006-08-06 06:17:36 · answer #2 · answered by carebears0408 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This is what we are told: that the females need blood proteins in order to reproduce and they are the ones who bite animals and people. But I wouldn't put it past the male mosquitos to have a little bite too.
2006-08-04 23:10:03 · answer #3 · answered by old lady 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes. The males feed on nectar, mainly, though they will buzz your ear (in search of females, presumably). Only the females will take a blood meal, without which they cannot lay eggs.
2006-08-04 23:05:11 · answer #4 · answered by davidbbonner 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
According to the gentleman out in west Texas that I had the privilege of listening to as he was checking boll weevil traps, it is true that only the females bite. He was also in charge of randomly trapping mosquitos and checking for West Nile virus.
2006-08-04 23:02:20 · answer #5 · answered by just common sense 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, it is right. The females do that, not as a food for them, but to feed the eggs. Without our blood the eggs don't get into new insects.
2006-08-04 23:03:43 · answer #6 · answered by Falco 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
CHeck out
http://science.howstuffworks.com/mosquito.htm
This is a pretty neat site about mosquitoes that will help you.
And yes- as you've now been told a hundred times- females bite.
RW
2006-08-04 23:08:01 · answer #7 · answered by Frust Parent 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
according to my instincts......
the answer is........
yes!!!!
only female mosquitos bites!!!!!
this is because female mosquitos needed blood to be able to have the right amount of energy to lay eggs.
2006-08-05 00:36:00 · answer #8 · answered by Charmzee 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Your statement is true. She seeks blood to feed her babies.
2006-08-04 23:01:38 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yup yup. Bloodsuckers, they are. Only females.
2006-08-04 23:01:09 · answer #10 · answered by Juror #8 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋