can mosquitos repeatidly bite or do they only bite once in thier lifetime?
2007-06-09 18:48:13 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Zoology
A female mosquito bites to suck blood and it does so till its stomach gets full and distended. A ganglion on the stomach sends the message to the brain. In the event the stomach is not full, it will bite another person till it becomes full. This is important for the maturation of oocytes and finally in egg laying.
2007-06-13 16:14:27 · answer #1 · answered by Ishan26 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
After a mosquito bites a person and fills it's stomach with blood it does not usually bite someone else straight away, but when it's supply of blood finishes, it goes and bites someone else again. Mosquitoes do not bite once in their lifetime.
2007-06-09 19:00:07 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes. One of the first things that adult mosquitoes do is seek a mate, mate and then feed. Male mosquitoes have short mouth parts and feed on plant nectar. In contrast, female mosquitoes have a long proboscis that they use to bite animals and humans and feed on their blood (the blood provides proteins that the females need to lay eggs). After they feed, females lay their eggs (they need a blood meal each time they lay eggs). Females continue this cycle and live anywhere from many days to weeks (longer over the winter); males usually live only a few days after mating. The life cycles of mosquitoes vary with the species and environmental conditions.
2007-06-09 18:58:35 · answer #3 · answered by Sweetpea4517 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Oh yes they can! Ask me, I live in Africa! Mosquitoes can bite people more that once and this is what forms the basis of the spread of malaria. A mosquito bites a person infected with malaria. It then bites an uninfected person and in doing so transfers the malarial parasite.
2007-06-09 23:49:47 · answer #4 · answered by MO 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no they bite many timez teh many ppl...
n daz the reason wen mosquito bites a malaria infected patient n it passes dat virus teh the other healthy person ba bitin him..
2007-06-09 18:58:12 · answer #5 · answered by Rohit Pal 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the blood thirsty little vampires will bite & suck blood as many times as it takes to fill thier bellies, just like a tick, only not quite as fat
2007-06-09 18:53:08 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes. They born to bite.
2007-06-09 21:48:05 · answer #7 · answered by hanibal 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Only if you don't slap them when they bite the first time.
2007-06-09 18:56:11 · answer #8 · answered by Revenant Hamster 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
definintly more that once. they arn't like bees, they actually live off blood, so they constantly need to bite people and animals
2007-06-09 18:51:55 · answer #9 · answered by lime.i.am 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
they can, until they are full of blood in their body (fat mosquito)
2007-06-10 05:55:23 · answer #10 · answered by Matthew 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋