Collocations withmosquito

These are words often used in combination withmosquito.

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adult mosquito
The adult mosquito can measure from 4-10 mm, and morphologically has the three body parts common to insects: head, thorax, and abdomen.
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female mosquito
It would also appear that only about an eighth of the female mosquito population of a house in normal circumstances is in a state to bite.
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infected mosquito
The simplest and most practical form of control is avoidance of being bitten by an infected mosquito.
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mosquito bite
They were inoculated either with sporozoites (generally through mosquito bite) or with infected blood.
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mosquito control
Fourthly, mosquito control efforts are increasingly reduced through the loss of established mosquito control programs and the rapid development of insecticide resistance in mosquito populations.
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mosquito larva
In bracts with greater quantities of water the typical inhabitants are mosquito larva.
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mosquito netting
Additionally, we completely covered 3-5 unopened i nflorescences of the eight female trees with mosquito netting (mesh size: 1 mm) to test for apomixis.
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mosquito population
This part is then mechanically transported to the left bank, with its initial mosquito population.
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mosquito repellent
Transfer in deverbal compounds 'mosquito repellent', estompe-rides 'fade-wrinkles' for 'wrinkle cream', and lave-vitres 'wash-windows' for 'window cleaning liquid'.
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