What are mosquitoes?

Mosquitoes are found living and breeding all across the country. Females feed on the blood of people and animals to get the required protein they need to develop their eggs. Mosquitoes can live on properties in large numbers, swarming people and making spending time outside impossible to enjoy. What a mosquito looks like will depend on its exact species but, in general, adult mosquitoes grow to between 1/4 and 3/8th of an inch in length. Their bodies are oval and narrow in shape. They have distinctive long legs and a long nose (proboscis). Female mosquitoes use their specially-developed mouthparts to feed on blood.  Both males and females use their proboscis to feed on plant nectar.