Mosquitoes use their proboscis, or part of their mouth, to cut the skin and get to the capillaries or veins to fill up with blood. According to Elmer Gray, a public health extension specialist at ...

Typically, the malaria parasite is transferred to humans by a bite. The mosquito uses its long, needle-like mouth (called a proboscis) to pierce the skin, injecting its saliva into the bloodstream ...

The female Anopheles mosquito may well be the most dangerous creature on Earth. When she lands on human skin, she sucks up blood through her needle-shaped mouth and injects saliva into the wound.

Ticks, mosquitoes and chiggers are among the most ... but not all insects are bugs and are determined as bugs by the type of mouth they have and how they develop. Spring and summer is when these ...