In most cases, malaria is transmitted when an infected female Anopheles mosquito bites you. Anopheles mosquitoes lay their eggs in water, which hatch into larvae, eventually emerging as adult mosquitoes. These adult female mosquitoes feed on blood to nurture their eggs. So if an infected mosquito bites you, you get infected with the parasite and suffer from malaria. Kids and pregnant women are at high risk due to low immunity and high susceptibility. The risk of transmission is high during rains, changing temperature and humidity.