Fun fact: Some mosquitoes lay dozens of individual eggs one at a time near or on a stagnant body of water. With this donation level, we can purchase basic supplies for maintaining colonies of mosquitoes we use in laboratory experiments (e.g., cages, sugar, cotton, netting).

Fun fact: Some mosquitoes lay eggs in large clusters that stick together and float on the surface of water. With this donation level, we can purchase basic supplies needed for setting mosquito traps at our field sites (e.g., batteries to operate traps, dry ice for generating carbon dioxide).

Fun fact: Mosquito larvae are juveniles that develop in stagnant water. They feed on microorganisms and organic matter. With this donation level, we can purchase animal blood from a supplier that we use to feed our mosquito colony and conduct experiments.

Fun fact: Once mosquito larvae grow large enough they transform into a pupa where they undergo metamorphosis into an adult mosquito. With this donation level, we can purchase fuel that is need to transport lab personnel and mosquito personnel to our field sites where we are trapping mosquitoes.

Fun fact: Adult male mosquitoes fly but do not feed on human blood or transmit disease. They only consume plant nectar. With this donation level, we can purchase mosquito traps that are needed for collecting mosquitoes from our field sites.

Fun fact: Adult female mosquitoes are the only life stage that feeds on human blood and transmits diseases. They need our blood to produce their eggs. With this donation level, we can purchase reagents and materials needed for conducting insecticide efficacy experiments on larval and adult mosquitoes.

Fun fact: When mosquito feed on your blood they can ingest 2-3 times their own body mass in blood! Not so fun fact: When mosquitoes are feeding on you they also urinate on you! With this donation level, we can purchase supplies and materials needed for molecular biology experiments in which we are attempting to understand how certain genes play key roles in the biology of mosquitoes.

Fun fact: Some mosquitoes mate in swarms of thousands of individuals. Males are attracted to 'love songs' produced by the beating wings of females. With this donation level, we can purchase supplies and reagents that are necessary for testing mosquitoes captured in the field for the presence of infectious viruses (e.g., Zika, West Nile, dengue).