New Zealand is home to a fascinating range of blood-feeding creatures.

Culex mosquitoes are distributed worldwide in tropical and temperate ... There are four distinct stages in the life cycle of a mosquito – egg, larva, pupa, and adult. The mosquito has a different ...

Its eggs can survive sometimes for as long as a ... and study coauthor Oluwaseun Ajayi said mosquitoes in the genus Culex, which are found around the world, can tolerate cold temperatures, too.

A study on Culex mosquitoes found that while females avoided laying eggs in habitats with competing conspecifics, the quality of neighboring patches did not significantly influence their habitat ...