The salvia makes it easier for her to slide her snout into your skin. After she leaves, your body has an allergic reaction to the saliva, causing itching, swelling and finally a bump. Female mosquitoes find people to bite by following air trails of carbon dioxide. Carbon dioxide is the gas that all animals exhale when they breathe. So just by breathing, we make ourselves targets to mosquitoes.
Mosquitoes are harmful for another reason as well.
Because they drink our blood, they can transmit diseases to us as well. Malaria is an infamous disease that is still very common in some parts of the world. Malaria is very hard to get rid of and can live in your body for years. Other diseases of concern are yellow fever, encephalitis, and West Nile fever. Mosquitoes need calm water to lay their eggs.