Common house mosquito
The common house mosquito is the small brown mosquito that buzzes by your ear at night. The females drink blood, but the males only sip sweet juice from flowers. Its babies wiggle around in puddles, ponds and old water barrels.
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Fun facts
One kind of it lives underground and is called the London Underground mosquito.
In winter it hides in basements, sheds and even caves until it gets warm again.
It helps pollinate some flowers, like tansy and yarrow, while drinking their sweet juice.
Its babies need water to grow. Puddles, ditches and old barrels are perfect nurseries.
Most asked questions about Common house mosquito
?How do you stop mosquitoes breeding near your house?
Empty buckets, barrels and anything else that holds standing water, because that is where the babies grow.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Culex pipiens
- Group
- Flies and mosquitoes
- Family
- Culicidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Diptera > Culicidae
- Lives on
- Europe, Asia, Africa, North America, South America, Australia and Oceania
- Also known as
- Northern house mosquito
Where the facts come from
- Culex pipiens (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0): what it looks like, where it lives, what it eats, sizes and fun facts, retold in simple words.
- Picture by Alvesgaspar. CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The round sticker of this bug is cut from the same picture.
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