Mosquitoes are cold-blooded and they generally do not bite in temperatures below 10 degrees. Not all mosquitoes just die off with the onset of winter. However, their survival differs from species to species.

Mosquitoes have many natural predators; purple martins, bats, mosquito fish, dragonflies and others. Unfortunately, most of these predators are not terribly effective, except around permanent bodies of water.

Culex pipiens: 7 days

The average mosquito bite drains 0.01 to 0.001 milliliters of blood. Thus it would take somewhere between 200,000 and 2 million mosquito bites to kill you from blood loss. For the average adult male (a.k.a. me), that works out to between 68 and 680 bites for every square inch of skin.

How you smell: Mosquitoes are drawn to floral scented soaps, deodorants, perfumes, and moisturizing lotions. It sounds gross, but they are also drawn to smelly feet or socks and your sweat or skin odor; and they will use these skin-derived chemical signals and smells to find you.

Clothing Can Help Reduce Mosquito Bites When possible, wear long sleeves, long pants, and socks when outdoors. Mosquitoes may bite through thin clothing, so spraying clothes with repellent will give extra protection.

While these insects may die if you smack them when you feel a bite, there’s no biological or anatomical reason they would die after feeding. In fact, these nuisance insects are capable of biting multiple times in a night. They’ll keep going until they’re full. So, you know that mosquitoes don’t die after biting.

Inhibiting a molecular process cells use to direct proteins to their proper destinations causes more than 90 percent of affected mosquitoes to die within 48 hours of blood feeding, a UA team of biochemists found.

People with Type O blood are more than universal donors. They’re also “tastier” to mosquitoes. In fact, according to a study, certain species of the insect landed on the skin of people with Type O blood almost twice as often as they did on the skin of those with Type A.

Only the female mosquito, which has a longer life span, actually bites and feeds on blood. Prior to hibernation, she will typically gorge on blood to get through the winter months. In the dormant stage during cold weather, she can generally go as long as six months without eating or drinking.

The most common places where mosquitoes hide in your room are under and behind the bed or other furniture, inside your drawers, on the ceiling, or on the walls. Or, you can also just stay up and wait. As I said, mosquitoes are attracted to carbon dioxide, heat, and light.

Wet and humid areas, such as caves, plants and grass, and even man-made structures like barns, culverts, cupboards and closets are some of the most common resting places for mosquitoes during the daytime.