Is the mode of nutrition of a mosquito parasitic? Why or why not?

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Yes, mosquitoes shows parasitic nutrition which is a mode of heterotrophic nutrition. As mosquitoes derive nutrition from body of another living organism. Mosquitoes suck blood from human body and nectars from flower also (male mosquitoes).

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