Come summer when we swap trousers and jeans for skirts and shorts we find ourselves getting bitten to shreds by those nasty blood-sucking mosquitoes.
The name mosquito is Spanish for "little fly" and applies to any member of the insect family. Culicidae is a group that comprises some 3,000 species over virtually the entire earth. They belong to the Diptera, the great order of flies. In this order there are many species of insects in which both the males and females feed on blood; however, among mosquitoes, only the females consume blood.
