Lucas Bustamante / Mosquito (Culicidae) feeding on the back of an Equatorial anole (Anolis aequatorialis) Mindo, Pichincha, Ecuador.

David Pattyn / Black necked grebe (Podiceps nigricollis) catching a mosquito on the water surface while foraging. The Netherlands. April 2014

David Pattyn / Black necked grebe (Podiceps nigricollis) portrait of an adult approaching a mosquito on the water surface while foraging. The Netherlands. April 2014

Alexander Badyaev / Deer mouse (Peromyscus maniculatus) on giant puffball mushroom, watching mosquito in the moonlight. Blackfoot Valley, Western Montana, USA, July. Winner of the Mammals category, Wildlife Photographer...

Jussi Murtosaari / Daubenton's bat (Myotis daubentonii) hunting a mosquito. central Finland, June.

Visuals Unlimited / Mosquito (Culex pipiens) female feeding on human blood, while a second mosquito is arriving.

Visuals Unlimited / Mosquito (Culex pipiens) backlit while drinking blood.

Phil Savoie / Mosquito (Culex pipiens) carrier of the West Nile Virus close-up

Jan Hamrsky / Mosquito (Culex pipiens) larva below its pupa case. Europe, August.

Jan Hamrsky / Mosquito (Culex pipiens) adult emerging through water surface from larva. Europe, August.

Daniel Heuclin / Mosquito (Anopheles gambiae) feeding on human in controlled conditions. The body is becoming engorged with blood. Malaria vector. Africa, June. Engorging sequence 2 of 3. Model released

Ingo Arndt / Mosquito (Culicidae) egg faft floating on surface of water, Germany

Stephen Dalton / Mosquito (Aedes sp) in flight

Stephen Dalton / Mosquito (Culicidae) newly emerged adult on water's surface

Stephen Dalton / Mosquito (Culicidae) female feeding on human blood, controlled conditions

Ingo Arndt / Mosquito (Culicidae) freshly hatched sitting on water surface with reflection, Germany.

Stephen Dalton / Spitting spider (Scytodes thoracica) approaching mosquito on glazed surface, UK, Scytotidae

Jack Dykinga / Sand dunes with cracked clay marking the last flash flood, Creosote bushes (Larrea tridentata) flowering in the background, Mosquito Flats, Death Valley National Park, California, USA

Jack Dykinga / Sand dunes with patterns caused by wind, Mosquito Flats, Death Valley National Park, California, USA

Wild Wonders of Europe / Smit / Robber fly (Asilidae) with mosquito prey hanging from leaf, Gornje Podunavlje Special Nature Reserve, Serbia, June 2009

Kim Taylor / Greater Bladderwort (Utricularia major) bladder with trapped mosquito larva, showing head still protruding from the mouth of the bladder. Surrey, UK

Kirkendall-Spring / Beach at Mosquito Creek on the Wilderness Coast, Olympic NP, Washington, USA

Kim Taylor / Mosquito (Aedes punctor) female resting after sucking blood from human arm. Sequence 4/4

Kim Taylor / Mosquito (Aedes punctor) female sucking blood from human arm. Sequence 3/4

Kim Taylor / Mosquito (Aedes punctor) female sucking blood from human arm. Sequence 1/4

Kim Taylor / Mosquito {Culex pipiens} female emerging from aquatic pupa, UK.

Kim Taylor / Mosquito (Culex pipiens) female

Kim Taylor / Mosquito {Culex pipiens} female emerging from pupa Digital composite, UK. Captive.

Rolf Nussbaumer / Mosquito hatching from larval case {Culicidae} Switzerland

Rolf Nussbaumer / Mosquito larvae {Culicidae} Switzerland

John Waters / John Downer Prod / Black lemur uses millipede secretions to ward off mosquitos and as a happy drug (Resolution restriction - image digitised from film, 'Weird Nature' tv series)

Warwick Sloss / Mosquito {Anopheles gambiae} female sucking blood from human

Martin Dohrn / Mosquito gorged with human blood {Culex pipiens} UK

Martin Dohrn / Newly emerged mosquito waits for exoskeleton to harden {Culex pipiens} C UK UK

Martin Dohrn / Mosquito {Culex pipiens} emerging from pupa at water surface, UK

Martin Dohrn / Mosquito {Culex pipiens} emerging from pupa at water surface, UK

Martin Dohrn / Mosquito adult emerging from pupa at water surface {Culex pipiens} UK

Martin Dohrn / Mosquito {Culex pipiens} larva about to emerge from pupa at water surface UK

Martin Dohrn / Mosquito {Culex pipiens} larvae filter feeding at surface of water. UK

Piotr Naskrecki / Yellow Fever Mosquito (Aedes aegypti) female feeding on human blood, Gorongosa National Park, Mozambique

Gerry Ellis / Mosquito Cove at dusk, Antigua, Caribbean

Michel Roggo / Underwater view of shallow pond on the shore of the lake, colour caused by dissolved tannins, with mosquito larvae. Lake Neuchatel, close to Font, Canton of Fribourg, Switzerland. April. Photographed...

Andres M. Dominguez / Portugese sundew (Drosophyllum lusitanicum) with mosquito prey in rain, Los Alcornocales Natural Park, Ubrique, southern Spain, December.

Andres M. Dominguez / Mosquito laying eggs in a river with Bacteria (Leptothrix sp.) Sierra de Grazalema Natural Park, Cadiz, Spain. October.

Heather Angel / Frog (Rana temporaria) spawn amongst invasive Fairy fern (Azolla filiculoides) from garden pond. Photographed in aquarium, controlled conditions. Surrey, England, UK. March.

Heather Angel / Fairy fern (Azolla filiculoides) and Water forget me not (Myosotis scorpioides) in frozen garden pond. Surrey, England, UK. January.

Matthew Maran / Red Fox (Vulpes Vulpes) a fox pauses from drinking distracted by a mosquito, North London, England, UK

Nick Upton / Mosquito larvae (Culicidae), filter feeding in a garden pond with the breathing tubes at the ends of their abdomens reaching the surface, Wiltshire, UK, June.