Life Cycle of Mosquito

Things to remember

• The life cycle of mosquito completes in four phases. They are eggs, larva, pupa, adult mosquito.
• The female mosquito takes a meal of blood before laying eggs.
• In a week, the larva moults for the last time and develops into a pupa.
• The complete life cycle from eggs to adult takes ten to seven days.
• Moulting is a process in which old skin degenerates and new skin generates in larva.
• Metamorphosis is a rapid transformation from larva to adult.