mosquito

Example Sentences

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Tired of spending frigid winters shoveling snow, or of sweating bullets and swatting mosquitoes in the summer?

From MarketWatch

To catch the minute, translucent fish, fishermen often use mosquito nets in wooden frames.

From Barron's

Malaria is caused by parasites that are spread by mosquitoes.

From The Wall Street Journal

"This water is now in such a condition that aquatic creatures can live very well in it, whereas earlier, even a mosquito could not thrive in this water," Gupta told reporters.

From Barron's

By exploiting mosquitoes' attraction to flowers, an international team of researchers engineered a new strain of Metarhizium fungus that releases a sweet aroma similar to real blooms.

From Science Daily