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Mosquitoes, the Culicidae, are a family of small flies consisting of 3,600 species. The word mosquito (formed by mosca and diminutive-ito) is Spanish and Portuguese for little fly. Mosquitoes have a slender segmented body, one pair of wings, three pairs of long hair-like legs, and specialized, highly elongated, piercing-sucking mouthparts.
MOSQUITO translate: مچھر. Learn more in the Cambridge English-Urdu Dictionary.
For an introductory guide on IPA symbols, see Help:IPA. Urdu ( اُردُو, [ʊɾduː] ⓘ; ALA-LC: Urdū) is an Indo-Aryan language spoken chiefly in South Asia. [10] [11] It is the national language and lingua franca of Pakistan, where it is also an official language alongside English. [12]
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Usually both male and female mosquitoes feed on nectar and plant juices. In many species the mouthparts of the females are adapted for piercing the skin of animal hosts and sucking their blood as ectoparasites. In many species, the female needs to get proteins from a blood meal before she can produce eggs. Hence, only female mosquitoes bites human ...
Mosquitoes are a vector (carrier) which carries disease-causing viruses and parasitesfrom person to person. The principal mosquito borne diseases are the viral diseases yellow fever, dengue fever and malaria carried by the genera Anopheles and Culex. Mosquitoes transmit disease to more than 700 million people every year in Africa, South America, Ce...
Methods used to prevent the spread of disease, or to protect individuals in areas where disease is endemicinclude: 1. Vector control aimed at mosquito eradication. Habitat change: removing standing water and other breeding areas; pesticides; natural predators; and trapping. 2. Disease prevention, using prophylactic drugs and vaccines; and preventin...
The oldest known mosquito with a basically modern anatomy was found in 79-million-year-old Canadian amber from the Upper Cretaceous.An older sister species with more primitive features was found in amber that is 90 to 100 million years old. Genetic analyses indicate that the Culicinae and Anophelinae clades may have diverged about 150 million years...
Aedes is a genus of mosquito originally found in tropical and subtropical zones, but has spread by human activity to all continents excluding Antarctica. Several of the species transmit important human diseases and one species, Aedes albopictus, is the most invasive mosquito in the world.
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machar. مچھر. Definition. 1. two-winged insect whose female has a long proboscis to pierce the skin and suck the blood of humans and animals. Wikipedia. Mosquitoes are small, midge-like flies that constitute the family Culicidae.
