1.   Because they eat mosquitoes, he says, and mosquitoes eat me.

2.   Bats Bats eat mosquitoes, and many people believe that a bat house or roost in the back yard is the solution to mosquito elimination.

3.   Adult mosquitoes are eaten by bats, swallows and other birds, so they are important in the food chain.

4.   People give free housing to purple martens just so they will eat mosquitoes.

5.   Stock ponds and tanks with fish, such as top-feeding minnows, that eat mosquitoes.

6.   These spiders, her story went, were protective and friendly and ate mosquitoes.

7.   Effective programs included eliminating mosquito breeding grounds, using lower-risk pesticides, and introducing predators who eat mosquitoes.