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How Do Mosquitoes Suck Our Blood?
- Subjects: Parasitology
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- Contributor:
- Marwa Omar
- 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 18 January 2026).
Omar M. How Do Mosquitoes Suck Our Blood?. Encyclopedia. Available at: https://encyclopedia.pub/video/video_detail/1597. Accessed January 18, 2026.
Omar, Marwa. "How Do Mosquitoes Suck Our Blood?" Encyclopedia, https://encyclopedia.pub/video/video_detail/1597 (accessed January 18, 2026).
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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