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Mosquito \Mos*qui"to\ (m[o^]s*k[=e]*t[-o]), n.; pl. {Mosquitoes}
(m[o^]s*k[=e]*t[=o]z). [Sp. mosquito, fr. moscafly, L. musca.
Cf. {Musket}.] (Zo["o]l.)
Any one of various species of gnats of the genus {Culex} and
allied genera. The females have a proboscis containing,
within the sheathlike labium, six fine, sharp, needlelike
organs with which they puncture the skin of man and animals
to suck the blood. These bites, when numerous, cause, in many
persons, considerable irritation and swelling, with some
pain. The larv[ae] and pup[ae], called wigglers, are aquatic.
[Written also {musquito}.]

{Mosquito bar}, {Mosquito net}, a net or curtain for
excluding mosquitoes, -- used for beds and windows.

{Mosquito fleet}, a fleet of small vessels.

{Mosquito hawk} (Zo["o]l.), a dragon fly; -- so called
because it captures and feeds upon mosquitoes.

{Mosquito netting}, a loosely-woven gauzelike fabric for
making mosquito bars.

Says Ms. Pomerenke: "That's when our mosquitoes really get vicious." Maxxam said that the earnings mostly reflect results at its Kaiser Aluminum Corp. unit, which sold 13% of its stock in its initial public offering this month.
Volume control and the absence of mosquitoes, ants and rain are some of the advantages of spending the Fourth of July in front of the tube.
Gunasekaran is one of 34 volunteers hired by the Health Department to act as "human bait" to attract and catch mosquitoes as part of a program that helps keep this city of 1 million people free of malaria.
Worst of all are the mosquitoes, midges and gadflies that sting us on the muzzle, causing colds and congestion, and plant their eggs in the soft flesh under our eyelids, weakening our already poor vision.
Still, the government fears the "flies and mosquitoes" have gotten out of hand.
The 3,600 black soldiers who endured frostbite, mosquitoes and the unsetting summer sun to build the Alaska Highway nearly 50 years ago also were never recognized for their work, two professors say.
By the 1950s, the birds' salt marsh habitat near the St. Johns River in central Florida was rapidly being consumed by development. Pesticides sprayed to control mosquitoes also hurt the birds.
"In different locations, the risk is going to be different," said Dr. Ted Tsai, a Colorado-based encephalitis specialist with the CDC. "Only certain mosquitoes carry these viruses.
The National Institutes of Health found that mosquitoes intentionally infected with AIDS-contaminated blood were later discovered to carry the AIDS virus.
The local mosquitoes carry malaria.
Besides, she noted, Florida already sprays to control mosquitoes.
Such orders are not unusual: Chinese children are accustomed to bringing in dead rats during anti-rat campaigns and the masses have met quotas for killing mosquitoes and swallows.
In the US, more than 1m dog-bites a year require hospital attention. Mosquitoes: about 1m people a year die of malaria, but mosquitoes also carry some 80 other diseases.
In warm climates favorable for mosquitoes, hundreds of millions are infected more or less constantly.
Besides that, mosquitoes weren't attracted to the zappers' light.
"Someone said, `We've got a lot of mosquitoes around here, so let's capitalize on it and do something crazy like start a mosquito festival,"' said Pomerenke.
Two potentially deadly kinds of viral encephalitis have reached high levels among virus-carrying mosquitoes in at least five states, federal health officials said Thursday.
But you can't shoot mosquitoes with a rifle anyway." During the summer here, you might try.
Maya Rao, a university teacher who has lived in New Delhi for many years, described New Delhi's monsoon this way: "There is muck and mud all over, mosquitoes attack you in hordes, diseases spread like vice.
Like the so-called sourdoughs of that time, today's miners are dogged by gold thieves, grizzly bears and clouds of summer mosquitoes.
That compares with 3.1 ounces of malathion _ or about four tablespoons _ per acre sprayed throughout Florida to control mosquitoes.
The remains of the airplane lay rotting in the slimy thicket of a gulch, wings clipped, tail shorn, body stove in, a sorry looking carcass guarded by squadrons of bloodthirsty mosquitoes.
It will be a few days at least before scientists know whether the spraying program eradicated the mosquitoes it was aimed at. Even then, officials said, it is expected to wipe out only 90 percent to 95 percent of the insects.
That compares with 3.1 ounces of malathion per acre routinely sprayed throughout Florida to control mosquitoes.
During the hajj, they abstain from cutting their hair, enjoying pleasures of the flesh and even killing mosquitoes.
In addition to drug precautions, the CDC urges travelers in malaria areas to take other precautions at night, when mosquitoes feed.
The mosquitoes that carry the virus favor the state's swampy southeastern corner.
Some people in a crowd of about 30,000 waited more than five hours in rain, mud and swarms of mosquitoes to get the best view of the ponies being herded across the channel from Assateague Island to Chincoteague on Virginia's Eastern Shore.
Greenhouse and field tests have shown that azadirachtin liquid spray, applied to plant leaves, controls about 170 types of insect pests, including beetles, caterpillars, fruit flies, crickets, locusts, aphids, weevils, gypsy moths and mosquitoes.
"There are far greater dangers from mosquitoes that might be carrying yellow fever or malaria (at the secondary press site) than from an exploding SRB (solid rocket booster)," he said.

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