But some mosquitoes are regular Huns and professional germ carriers, and besides annoying one they skillfully insert the germs of malaria and yellow fever into one's system.
It is only the females that you need fear; drone bees do not sting and buck mosquitoes do not bite.
Rigged thus, the black flies and mosquitoes can only bite the ends of your fingers, and, sad to say, they will soon find where the ends of the fingers are located.
The food of dragon flies ismosquitoes and flies caught while on the wing.
If you have living dragon flies, try feeding them flies or mosquitoesand note how they are seized.
Nonomme was crying softly, because the mosquitoeswere biting him.
The investigations of the same authority have shown that when the blood of infected persons is sucked by mosquitoes these insects also imbibe the embryos, which subsequently undergo transformation in the mosquitoes into the larval state.
One day they are to grow into gnats or mosquitoes or dragon-flies, but they are not thinking about that just now, all their thoughts are on their meals.
Preferring just mosquitoes to both smudge and mosquitoes the more fortunate party in the auto left the jolly soldiers amid many wavings of kerchiefs--those white flags of truce.
Each sleeper had a small netting suspended over him from the ceiling; without that netting the dense swarms of savagemosquitoes would have made sleep impossible.
These mosquitoes had, I understood, attacked a French priest in whose blood Dr Araujo also detected Filariæ.
Between this gimlet-tailed pest, however, and the mosquitoes of Asterabad we decide that there can be very little to choose, and so make up our minds to accept our host's hospitality for a day and then push on.
The thicket is alive with ravenous mosquitoes that issue immediately their peculiar policy of assurance against falling asleep.
Mosquitoes likewise contribute to the general inducement to keep awake; and after the others have finally lain down, my ancient next neighbor produces a small mortar and pestle and busies himself pounding drugs.
Anyway, there's no muskegs (swamps) hereabouts, and therefore no mosquitoes to speak of.
The mosquitoes were not so troublesome; and at ten in the evening there was an aurora borealis, consisting of two columns of pale light, which rose high in the air, sometimes lengthening, and then again contracting.
A wilderness full of thorns and briers joined the wood to the hill, where the mosquitoes were excessively troublesome.
The evening was very pleasant, but the mosquitoes penetrated in such swarms into the vessel, that we were obliged to stop every aperture of the cabin, and consequently suffered from the heat.
About ten in the morning a violent storm arose, accompanied with rain; the thermometer was at 71°, and the mosquitoes were very troublesome.
Swarms of mosquitoesare a great torment in the summer time, but not in the same degree every year.
Destroy mosquitoes and protect from them by screens.
If baby is bitten by mosquitoes wash the spot off with a little camphor water, soda water, or a wet compress of witch-hazel should be kept on the bite or boracic acid or soda solution.
It is probably caused by a specific organism which is conveyed from one person to another by mosquitoes and not in clothing, as formerly believed.
There were many mosquitoes in this section, but effective mosquito nets over our cots protected us from them.
Mosquitoes may bite you, causing a dreadful fever that may later result in death in some lingering and costly form.
These coats of paint, when fresh, served as holiday attire, and protected them from the bites of mosquitoes and other insects.
Hundreds of monkeys screech shrilly in the trees and millions of mosquitoes hum steadily within an inch or two of one's ears.
The mosquitoes here are very bad indeed and it is necessary to take quinine every day to counteract the effects of their poison.
Hundreds of mosquitoeshummed around with the ambitious idea presumably of carrying the germs to some other unfortunate.
Commandant Ankström, the Adjoint Superieur to the Commissaire, kindly lends us his house and we at once move in, glad to leave the mosquitoes of the river and to sleep in a room once more.
This sounded like mosquitoes so, having tucked in my net more closely, I turned round to sleep.
It is not very hot in Boma about this time, for it is the winter or dry season and the nights are so cold that only the very hardy mosquitoes are sufficiently wide awake to prevent people sleeping.
The result was that I spent a most horrible night, for the mosquitoes were terribly hostile and evidently recognised a new European with some healthy blood.
It was very hot and the mosquitoes were terribly hostile, but otherwise my visit was very pleasant and agreeable.
As the mosquitoes prevent all sleep in the cabin, we arrange to make up a bed on deck and obtain a better night's rest, for it is comparatively cool here in the evening in the open.
The mosquitoes indeed, will not face wood smoke, but tobacco smoke is useless as a shield against their attacks.
Near here we anchor for the night and are welcomed by a host of most noisy and vicious mosquitoes who have a particular partiality to good healthy European-fed blood.
The heat, the moonlight, and the mosquitoes would not let them even think of sleep.
At night the mosquitoes proved themselves to be the most ferocious and blood-thirsty creatures we had as yet encountered.
The former was a fairly successful event, but the latter was made almost impossible by the swarms of mosquitoes that beset us.
One lived hard up there, enduring arctic cold, and the heat of the short summer, when bloodthirsty mosquitoes swarm; and ran daunting risks on the lonely prospecting trail.
After supper some of the men went fishing, and Drummond set off alone along the beach, while Agatha and Thirlwell sat among the rocks where the pungent wood-smoke drifted past and kept the mosquitoes off.
Well, it was Indian summer; mosquitoes dying off, lakes and rivers all asleep in the pale sunshine.
The door and window were open, although the mosquitoes were numerous, and the roar of the Shadow River and a smell of wood smoke came in.
By and by the mosquitoes that had followed Thirlwell got more numerous and when, in spite of the smoke, they settled upon his face and neck he reeled up his line ready to start.
There's a tropics right here, too, with deadly miasmas and mosquitoes that buzz strange things and sting you full of delirious fevers.
But flies and mosquitoes do not stop with fences, nor do they recognize city or county boundaries.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mosquitoes" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
