11.   In this season of the West Nile virus, the female mosquito has become something more than a nuisance.

12.   It might help, however, to know that only female mosquitoes bite, and not because they eat blood.

13.   Only the female mosquito drinks blood.

14.   So this, then, is a biography of the female mosquito.

15.   This biological messenger, which is odorless to humans, could lure female mosquitoes away from the places where people live.

16.   Dengue, a virus transmitted by the female Aedes mosquito, causes severe muscular pains, stomach inflammation, headaches and hemorrhaging, which for some can be deadly.

17.   Female mosquitoes transmit the malaria parasite, which destroys white blood cells, causing anemia.

18.   Female mosquitoes transmit the malaria parasite, which kills white blood cells, causing anemia.

19.   It is transmitted to humans through the saliva of female mosquitoes that pick up the parasite when they bite infected humans.

20.   Malaria is transmitted by the bite of a female Anopheles mosquito, which carries the parasites that cause the disease.