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Would you believe that a mosquito was responsible for more human deaths than any other living creature? When it sucks your blood it can transmit deseases like malaria, yellow fever, encephalitis and West Nile virus. Of course, a mosquito takes quite a journey before it's prepared to make a plasma withdraw. The four stages of its lifecycle are:
Egg. The female lays her legs in water. She often lays over two hundred eggs at the time and the eggs can survive five years before hatching.
Larva. The larva feeds on micro organisms in the water which is wide places with plenty of stagnant water like the everglades or last summer's abandoned [waiting] pool in the backyard are good breeding grounds.
Then there is [puper] which is just a quick, non-feeding transitional phase.
And finaly adult ready to join the billions of airborne blood-suckers.
A female may live about a hundred days. By the way, only females insert their blood-syphon into your skin and drink your life-essence. They need a blood-meal in order to produce eggs. Males are satisfied with nectar from flowers. Now, to be fair, there are three thousand mosquito species around the world. Many don't bite humans, preffering other species. Then finally you're more likely to get beaten if you have the smelly feet. Mosquitos like women who are ovulating and blondes more than brunetes. And biting activity increases five hundred times during a full [moon], which does not help their reputation as creepy creatures.

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