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Article History

Type Description Contributor Date
Invalidated site: Interesting Facts - Certain Drinks Make Humans More Attractive to Mosquitoes. Oct 13, 2026
Add new Web site: UC IPM - Home and Landscape - Mosquitoes. Oct 12, 2026
Add new Web site: Interesting Facts - Mosquitos May Prefer a Certain Blood Type. Aug 07, 2026
Add new Web site: Interesting Facts - Certain Drinks Make Humans More Attractive to Mosquitoes. Aug 07, 2026
Add new Web site: ABC listen - Nightlife - The science of mosquitoes. Apr 27, 2026
Add new Web site: ABC listen - What The Duck?! - Mosquitos- blood suckers. Jan 21, 2026
Added information about mosquito distribution and the impacts of climate change. Added top questions. Oct 22, 2025
Mentioned the Asian tiger mosquito (Aedes albopictus) and chikungunya fever. Oct 17, 2025
Added a module on related content. Aug 07, 2025
Add new Web site: CellPress - Current Biology - Mosquito biology: Scents and selectability. Jul 11, 2025
Added information about their ecological importance and mentioned examples of host specificity. May 29, 2025
Add new Web site: Nature - Scientific Reports - Culicidae evolutionary history focusing on the Culicinae subfamily based on mitochondrial phylogenomics. May 23, 2025
Added a cross-reference to Anopheles. Dec 09, 2024
Added a cross-references to Culex. Media added. Dec 03, 2024
Media added. Aug 16, 2024
Added a slider showing a mosquito larva and its adult form. Jul 01, 2024
Added information about the environmental impacts of mosquito control methods and added a taxonomic box. Apr 18, 2024
Add new Web site: National Center for Biotechnology Information - Mosquito control. Mar 28, 2024
Add new Web site: Purdue University - Medical Entomology - Mosquitoes. Apr 05, 2023
Add new Web site: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention - Mosquitoes. Nov 28, 2022
Add new Web site: Animal Diversity Web - Aedes albopictus. Sep 05, 2022
Add new Web site: AZ Animals - Mosquito. Mar 14, 2022
Add new Web site: United States Environmental Protection Agency - Mosquito Control. Mar 14, 2022
New media added. Jun 02, 2020
Added information on mosquito control. Feb 11, 2019
Add new Web site: The Canadian Encyclopedia - Mosquito. Jan 22, 2019
Corrected display issue. Jun 13, 2018
Add new Web site: Easy Science for Kids - Mosquitoes � How They Spread Diseases? Dec 09, 2016
Add new Web site: Science Kids - Fun Science and Technology for Kids! - Fun Mosquito Facts for Kids. Dec 09, 2016
Add new Web site: National Geographic Kids - Animals - Mosquito. Dec 09, 2016
Updated species names and added common names of mentioned mosquito species. Aug 23, 2016
Add new Web site: Pest World for Kids - Mosquito. Apr 23, 2014
Add new Web site: National Geographic - Mosquito. Feb 01, 2013
Add new Web site: Buzzle.com - Mosquito. Feb 01, 2013
Add new Web site: Quatr.us - Why do mosquitoes bite? Feb 01, 2013
Add new Web site: BioKIDS - Mosquito. Feb 01, 2013
Added image of an Aedes mosquito. Apr 19, 2012
Media added. Nov 17, 2008
Added new Web site: National Geographic - Animals - Mosquito. Aug 28, 2008
Added new Web site: Environmental Education For Kids - Mosquito. Jun 25, 2008
Added new Web site: Environmental Education for Kids! - Mosquito. Jun 17, 2008
Added new Web site: How Stuff Works - Animals - Mosquito. May 20, 2008
Added new Web site: Enchanted Learning - Mosquito. Mar 04, 2008
Article revised and updated. Mar 01, 2007
Added new Web site: Rutgers - New Jersey Mosquito Biology and Control. Jun 27, 2006
Article added to new online database. Jul 20, 1998
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