If you are doing research on the flying insect called the mosquito, you may want to familiarize yourself with the mosquito life cycle.  The mosquito life cycle is comprised of four stages, the egg raft, the larva, the pupa and the adult.  Most people are not aware that it is only the female adult who does the biting.

If you are trying to control the mosquito population in your yard, you might be wise to understand the mosquito life cycle, so that you can eliminated the mosquitoes before they hatch from egg to larva.  There are also many products that contain larvacide that will kill the larva before they become full-grown adults.

Because female mosquitoes lay their eggs in water or sometimes even in flight over the water, it is important to make sure you do not have a lot of standing water around the perimeter of your home.  During the mosquito life cycle the larvae live in water, and feed on microorganisms that float on the surface of the water.  You can get mosquito dunks to place in fountains or water buckets to help rid the larvae from the water.