Question

What is the mosquito and what is the role of nutrition of mosquito? What is the scientific name of a mosquito?

Answer 1

Mosquito:

1. ​Mosquitoes are are midge-like flies that act as ectoparasites.
   
2. The female mosquitoes feed on the blood of various animals that act as their host.
   
3. Mammals, birds, amphibians, reptiles and even fishes act as the host for the mosquitoes.
   
4. Mosquito also acts as a vector of various diseases like malaria, dengue fever and zika virus, which it spreads from an affected person to a healthy person.
   

Scientific name:

1. There are about 110 genera of mosquito belonging to Culicidae family. ​
2. The commonest genera is the genera of Anopheles mosquito.