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How Do Mosquitoes Suck Our Blood?
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  • Update Date: 06 May 2025
  • Mosquitos
  • Blood meal
  • Vector
  • Disease transmission
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This video is adapted from: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rD8SmacBUcU

How mosquitos suck the human blood.

It is known that only the female mosquito sucks the human blood and takes the blood meal for oviposition and maturation.

The male mosquito does not feed on blood, but nectar and plant juice instead.

The blood feeding behaviour of the female mosquito plays a vital role in the mechanical and biological disease transmission.

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Omar, M. How Do Mosquitoes Suck Our Blood?. Encyclopedia. Available online: https://encyclopedia.pub/video/video_detail/1597 (accessed on 05 December 2025).
Omar M. How Do Mosquitoes Suck Our Blood?. Encyclopedia. Available at: https://encyclopedia.pub/video/video_detail/1597. Accessed December 05, 2025.
Omar, Marwa. "How Do Mosquitoes Suck Our Blood?" Encyclopedia, https://encyclopedia.pub/video/video_detail/1597 (accessed December 05, 2025).
Omar, M. (2025, April 30). How Do Mosquitoes Suck Our Blood?. In Encyclopedia. https://encyclopedia.pub/video/video_detail/1597
Omar, Marwa. "How Do Mosquitoes Suck Our Blood?." Encyclopedia. Web. 30 April, 2025.
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