Mosquitoes use their proboscis, or part of their mouth, to cut the skin and get to the capillaries or veins to fill up with blood. According to Elmer Gray, a public health extension specialist at ...

Also, some larvae are predatory and feed on other mosquito larvae using sharp mouth parts called mandibles. During this stage, mosquito larvae must surface to breathe, which they accomplish ...

The female Anopheles mosquito may well be the most dangerous creature on Earth. When she lands on human skin, she sucks up blood through her needle-shaped mouth and injects saliva into the wound.