It is a component of human odour attractive to female mosquitoes.

Warm weather tends to bring out breeding female mosquitoes to bite.

The black ovitrap attracts female mosquitoes to lay their eggs.

A few minutes after application the insect cannot move or fly away and female mosquitoes are inhibited from biting.

Three of us carried electronic gadgets that were supposed to repel female mosquitoes.

If they worked, female mosquitoes must be a very small part of the noxious insect population.

Blood, whether from people or rats or birds, is needed by female mosquitoes to lay eggs.

Water is pumped into the marsh in the late spring and summer to prevent the female mosquito from laying her eggs on the soil.

After biting humans, female mosquitoes use the blood to nourish hundreds of eggs.

This is important in preventing malaria because only female mosquitoes bite humans.