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

One last tip: Walk your property and look for standing water in saucers, buckets or any other receptacle since even the smallest of these can be a breeding ground for mosquitoes.

From Los Angeles Times

With help from the United Nations and charities, the health ministry has been able to provide diagnostic tests, mosquito nets and care facilities to help counter dengue infections, ministry official Dr Leila Hamadelnil said.

From Reuters

In what should be the living room, housemates lie or sit among mattresses, bedding, mosquito nets and half-packed bags with personal effects strewn all over the floor.

From BBC

Ecologists believe the transatlantic migration of mosquitoes may have peaked around the year 1800, during the height of the Transatlantic Slave Trade.

From Science Magazine