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miname
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miname asked in Science & MathematicsZoology · 1 decade ago

Can mosquitos starve to death?

And if so how long does it take?

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  • 1 decade ago
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    Male mosquitoes feed on nectar only, Females feed on both nectar and blood. For a female to lay eggs it has to have a blood meal. Irrespective of the source of blood. So, starvation due to lack of food is impossible but starvation from blood meals is quite possible but no eggs are laid.

  • 1 decade ago

    Of course they can. Any living creature that requires nourishment will die if it cannot get it. The tricky part of your question is how long it will survive. Mosquitoes have a short life span of a several days and they do not require much food in that time. The sucking of blood by the female is mostly to grow the eggs within her. I think in a foodless and waterless space they might last for 3 - 5 days.

  • 1 decade ago

    I read somewhere that a mosquito "diet pill" has been invented, which alters mosquito digestion, making it impossible for them to feed, lay eggs or survive.

    blood does not provide “food” for mature mosquitoes, they get their food from plant nectar, like honeybees. so if you capture and trap them, they will starve to death. they will die in abt 72 hours (3 days) for both mtds.

  • 5 years ago

    Why not just trap a few mosquitoes in a jar and see how long it takes them to die?

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  • 1 decade ago

    the biochemist who developed it at the University of Florida's Medical Entomology Laboratory in Vero Beach. "In four to six days they're all going to starve to death."

  • 1 decade ago

    I don't know how long but everything living can starve.

  • 1 decade ago

    Yes, and how long it would take I don't know.

  • 1 decade ago

    kill all mosquitos! the world doesnt need them..

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    no their not humanas lol mayhbe uif HUNRY

    Source(s): my btain
  • 1 decade ago

    Hopefully...........Soon

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