Assertion: mosquito | /r/CapableOf | feed on blood
Facets:
value: as culex modestus
type: MANNER
value: during the day
type: TEMPORAL
value: with antibiotics
type: OTHER
Source sentences:
text: They are carriers of diseases, including malaria, dengue fever, and yellow fever which can be transmitted to humans and animals when the mosquito feeds on blood.
text: Do Mosquitoes Only Eat Blood?
text: In a study to prevent the spread of malaria, scientists observed what happened after mosquitoes were fed blood that had been laced with antibiotics.
text: However, mosquitoes that were fed the blood with antibiotics were also more successful at sustaining more egg-laying females, laying more eggs and increasing survival rates.
text: Some people might believe that mosquitoes feed only on blood.
text: Mosquitoes bite particularly at dawn and dusk; some mosquitoes, as Culex modestus, can feed on blood during the day,though.
text: Then, if they are female, they feed on blood.
text: • Why do mosquitoes feed on blood?
text: Why do mosquitoes feed on blood?
text: “they don’t feed on blood.
text: Mosquitoes spread diseases like malaria, dengue and yellow fever when they feed on blood.
text: Insect reproductive biology specialist Laura Sirot, PhD states that “Some mosquitoes don’t eat blood at all; and of the ones that do eat blood, some don’t eat human blood.