female mosquito

collocation in English

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female
adjective
uk
/ˈfiː.meɪl/us
/ˈfiː.meɪl/
belonging or relating to the sex that can give birth to young or ...
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mosquito
noun[C]
uk
/məˈskiː.təʊ/us
/məˈskiː.t̬oʊ/
a small flying insect that bites people and animals and sucks ...
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(Definition offemaleandmosquitofrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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It would also appear that only about an eighth of thefemalemosquitopopulation of a house in normal circumstances is in a state to bite.
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Sporozoites from the saliva of a bitingfemalemosquitoare transmitted to either the blood or the lymphatic system of the recipient.
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Water is pumped into the marsh in the late spring and summer to prevent thefemalemosquitofrom laying her eggs on the soil.
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The disease is caused by the yellow fever virus and is spread by the bite of thefemalemosquito.
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Female mosquitoes were introduced into a holding tube from which they could escape into a cage through a one-way funnel.
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This is most likely the result of active flight and oviposition by female mosquitoes.
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Many female mosquitoes trapped will be searching for their first blood meal after eclosion.
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The absence of larvae was therefore evidently not due to any lack of fertile female mosquitos.
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Of the total female mosquitoes collected, 75.9% were anophelines and 24.1% were culicines.
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Fully fed female mosquitoes were caught, counted and released into another cage.
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In contrast to the first block, the female mosquitoes used in this analysis were selected arbitrarily from each cage after blood-feeding (selection not restricted to those that were fully engorged).
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It is also possible that the predation cost is only apparent in female mosquitoes (which were not used in the experiments), as only females overwinter in caves.
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To assess the natural survival, another batch of female mosquitoes was fed on amicrofilaraemic persons (determined on the basis of 3 blood smears) and was also followed up until death.
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Another example of such behaviour is seen in female mosquitoes carrying malaria parasites.
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In total about one million female mosquitoes were bred for the testing; remaining mosquitoes were used in munitions loading and storage tests.
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Female mosquitoes are particularly drawn to foot odours, and one of the tests showed infected mosquitoes landing and biting a prospective host repeatedly.
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Healthy inmates were infected by mosquitoes or by injections of extracts of the mucous glands of female mosquitoes.
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Research has shown that certain chemicals emanating from bacteria in water containers stimulate the female mosquitoes to lay their eggs.
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Only female mosquitoes feed on blood; male mosquitoes feed on plant nectar, and thus do not transmit the disease.
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