The pupal stage will last about 2-3 days depending on water temperature. Maximum survival time of an adult mosquito in nature is ab out 60 days. Some species prefer birds or even reptiles as hosts, but most species of mosquitoes prefer mammals including humans. All of these diseases are present or have been present in Louisiana. Many other diseases are also transmitted by the bite of a mosquito throughout the tropics.
Malaria is the number one insect-borne killer of humans.
It affects 270 million people worldwide and results in almost 2 million deaths yearly. The World Health Organization estimates that malaria accounts for 1 million deaths of infants and young children in Africa each year. Malaria is still present in parts of the U.S., but at very low levels. Mosquito control efforts have kept the U.S. infection rate at only one or two new cases per year. Periodic Yellow Fever epidemics swept through southern U.S. cities throughout the 18th and 19th centuries.