50 Mosquito Quotes that Will Buzz in Your Mind

Light a citronella candle and ready the calamine lotion because these mosquito quotes are sure to make you itch.

The mosquito is a tiny insect notorious for being over-the-top irritating.

The mosquito is among the most deadly creatures currently living on Earth.

It is found in diverse habitats around the globe.

Apart from this, mosquitoes also have a substantial impact on our ecosystems.

Keep reading to learn more.

Life Cycle and Anatomy 

Mosquitoes come from a family called Culicidae.

There are more than 3,500 known species of mosquitoes.

Irrespective of their small size, these insects can adapt to various habitats.

The life cycle of this insect consists of four stages, including: 

1. Egg
2. Larva
3. Pupa 
4. Adult

Mosquitoes usually lay their eggs in standing water like ponds and puddles.

The larvae are commonly referred to as “wigglers.”

After hatching from eggs, larvae develop in water. 

After some time, they enter the pupal stage and turn into adult mosquitoes. 

Ecological Role

Mosquitoes are also known for their essential role while creating ecological balance.

These insects both serve as predators as well as prey.

This means mosquitoes dually benefit the ecosystem.

Contrary to a common belief, mosquitos don’t feed on blood.

Only the female mosquito needs blood for reproduction, which persuades her to bite humans and other animals with soft skin.

Most of the mosquitoes feed on nectar obtained from flowers.

Hence, they also contribute to pollination.

Regarding aquatic environments, mosquito larvae also serve as a critical food source for amphibians and fish. 

Adult mosquitoes also serve as a significant food source for bats, birds, and other insectivores.

Health Challenges and Diseases

In addition to their ecological value, mosquitoes pose different health risks to humans. 

Since female mosquitoes bite humans for blood, they can transmit different diseases like Malaria and Dengue. 

For instance, Malaria is caused by the transmission of a parasite called Plasmodium.

It is transmitted by a particular mosquito species named “Anopheles mosquito.”

Malaria is so deadly that it is responsible for thousands of deaths per year worldwide.

Some other types of diseases transmitted by mosquitoes are listed below:

• Zika virus 
• Yellow fever
• West Nile virus 
• Chikungunya

Top 10 Mosquito Quotes 

Below are our curated top 10 mosquito quotes full of humor and information regarding mosquitoes.

1. “Gossip is the social mosquito.” — Myrtle Reed

2. “Do not use a cannon to kill a mosquito.” — Confucius

3. “Mosquitoes can ruin the hunt for big game.” — David Allen

4. “The mosquito is the state bird of New Jersey.” — Andy Warhol

5. “I see myself as a roving mosquito, choosing its target.” — Kenneth Williams

6. “Mosquitoes were using my ankles as filling stations.” — Cornelia Otis Skinner

7. “If we walk in the woods, we must feed mosquitoes.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

8. “You don’t hate the mosquito; you just want it out of your face.” — Simon Cowell

9. “The best blood will at some time get into a fool or a mosquito.” — Benito Mussolini

10. “Mosquitoes are the greatest mass murderers on planet Earth.” — Katherine Applegate

Mosquito Quotes On Biting  

Everyone is concerned about mosquito bites not only due to the extreme itch but also possible diseases.

11. “If you think you’re too small to have an impact, try going to bed with a mosquito.” — Anita Roddick

12. “If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito.” — Dalai Lama

13. “People who say that small things don’t bother them have never slept in a room with a mosquito.” — Dennis Rainey

14. “Anyone who thinks that they are too small to make a difference has never tried to fall asleep with a mosquito in the room.” — Christine Todd Whitman

15. “I’ve just been bitten on the neck by a vampire… mosquito. Does that mean that when the night comes, I will rise and be annoying?” — Vera Nazarian

16. “An itchy feeling began to work its way through my body, as though a thousand mosquitoes were circulating through my blood, biting me from the inside, making me want to scream, jump, squirm. I ran.” — Lauren Oliver

17. “I noticed, as I had done before, that there was a lull among the mosquitoes about midnight and that they began again in the morning. Nature is thus merciful. But apparently, they need rest as well as we.” — Henry David Thoreau

18. “Have you ever been bitten by an elephant? How about a mosquito? It’s the little things in life that will bite you. For most of us, it’s the frequent, small, and seemingly inconsequential choices that are of grave concern.” — Darren Hardy

19. “Aching familiar in a way that made me wish I was still eight. Eight was before death or divorce, or heartbreak. Eight was just eight. Hot dogs and peanut butter, mosquito bites, and splinters, bikes and boogie boards. Tangled hair, sunburned shoulders, Judy Blume, in bed by nine-thirty.” — Jenny Han

20. “In stillness, I watched myself get eaten by mosquitoes… the itch was maddening at first, but eventually, it just melded into a general burning feeling, and I rode that heat to a mild euphoria. I allowed the pain to lose its specific associations and become pure sensation… and that eventually lifted me out of myself and into meditation.” — Elizabeth Gilbert

Mosquito Quotes On its Impacts

Mosquitoes directly impact our life, and they can’t be neglected. Check out the following quotes in this regard. 

21. “To me, there is nothing more soothing than the song of a mosquito that can’t get through the mesh to bite you.” — Madison Smartt Bell

22. “When we got to our hotel rooms, mosquitoes as big as George Foreman was waiting for us. They were sitting in armchairs with their legs crossed.” — Mel Brooks

23. “We are not created for any grander purpose than the ants that are there or the flies that are hovering around us or the mosquitoes that are sucking our blood.” — U.G. Krishnamurti

24. “The greatest mercy, I have often thought, of the Mediterranean coast lies in its mosquitoes. Did we not suffer from their unwelcome attention, we could not bear our holidays to end.” — Winifred Holtby

25. “Considering their impact, you might expect mosquitoes to get more attention than they do. Sharks kill fewer than a dozen people every year, and in the U.S., they get a week dedicated to them on TV every year.” — Bill Gates

26. “The belief is growing on me that the disease is communicated by the bite of the mosquito. … She always injects a small quantity of fluid with her bite-what if the parasites get into the system in this manner.” — Ronald Ross

27. “Often I have been exhausted on trout streams, uncomfortable, wet, cold, briar scarred, sunburned, mosquito-bitten, but never, with a fly rod in my hand, have I been less than in a place that was less than beautiful.” — Charles Kuralt

28. “There was once a Hindu sage who sat down on the banks of the Ganges and thought for seventy years about the millennium. Just as he arrived at the solution and was putting it into verse, a mosquito stung him, and he forgot it again at once.” — Don Marquis

29. “But however secure and well-regulated civilized life may become, bacteria, Protozoa, viruses, infected fleas, lice, ticks, mosquitoes, and bedbugs will always lurk in the shadows ready to pounce when neglect, poverty, famine, or war lets down the defenses.” — Hans Zinsser

30. “No matter how good you are at sneaking, you can’t ever sneak well enough so that mosquitoes won’t find you, and no matter how worried and tense you are, or how hard you are trying to pay attention, you just can’t help noticing when a cloud of mosquitoes comes for you like you’re their first good meal since last fall.” — Patricia C. Wrede

Mosquito Quotes About Controlling Mosquito

Controlling mosquitoes is important to protect the environment. Here are various ways stated in the following quotes by which we can control mosquitoes.

31. “[On what bugged him] A fine city with too many socialists and mosquitoes. At least you can spray the mosquitoes.” — Ralph Klein

32. “The spider is an animal who eats mosquitoes. That’s why I love the spider – it is the only way we have to deal with these insects.” — Louise Bourgeois

33. “We can send people to the Moon; we can see if there’s life on Mars – why can’t we get $5 [mosquito] nets to 500 million people?” — Jacqueline Novogratz

34. “Fighting patents one by one will never eliminate the danger of software patents, any more than swatting mosquitoes will eliminate malaria.” — Richard Stallman

35. “I continue to handpick the beetles, mosquitoes feast on me, birds eat the mosquitoes, something else eats the birds, and so on up and down the biotic pyramid.” — William F. Longgood

36. “I believe more in precision, when you have the capability, like when you see a mosquito fly, and you’re able to hit it, you’re able to hit it with a couple of short sharp shots… it’s a beautiful thing.” — Alexis Arguello

37. “Like letting spiders live because they eat mosquitoes, Clary thought. “So they’re good enough to let live, good enough to make your food for you, good enough to flirt with-but, not really good enough? I mean, not as good as people.” — Cassandra Clare

38. “The tool that’s most associated with the recent progress against malaria is the long-lasting bed net. Bed nets are a fantastic innovation. But we can do even better. We can invent new ways to control the mosquitoes that carry the malaria parasite.” — Bill Gates

39. “Become a worry-slapper. Treat frets like mosquitoes. Do you procrastinate when a bloodsucking bug lights on your skin? ‘I’ll take care of it in a moment.’ Of course, you don’t! You give the critter the slap it deserves. Be equally decisive with anxiety.” — Max Lucado

40. “The Aedes aegypti mosquito, which spreads dengue fever and yellow fever, has traditionally been unable to survive at altitudes higher than 1,000 meters because of colder temperatures there. But with recent warming trends, those mosquitoes have now been reported at 1,240 meters in Costa Rica and at 2,200 meters in Columbia. Malaria-bearing mosquitoes, too, have moved to higher elevations in central Africa, Asia, and parts of Latin America, triggering new outbreaks of the disease.” — Ross Gelbspan

More Mosquito Quotes

Here are a few more quotes on mosquitos before you buzz off!  

41. “Mosquitoes are nature’s way of teaching us patience and self-restraint.” — Jeremy Jackson

42. “Take a lesson from the mosquito. She never waits for an opening – she makes one.” — Kirk Kirkpatrick

43. “Life is a hailstorm of distractions. It’s not the monster that stops us but the mosquito.” — Robert G. Allen

44. “Changing from a player to a coach, I felt like a mosquito in a nudist colony. I didn’t know where to begin.” — Pee Wee Reese

45. “I was nicknamed ‘Skeeter’ in Little League because I was small and fast, like a mosquito flying across the outfield.” — Skeet Ulrich

46. “I have the attention span of a mosquito from multitasking and all the things that have affected my poor little brain.” — Ian Somerhalder

47. “A story with a moral appended is like the bill of a mosquito. It bores you, and then injects a stinging drop to irritate your conscience.” — O. Henry

49. “Mosquitoes are the ultimate symbol of impermanence; they have a lifecycle of 10 days, yet they can bring down an elephant.” — Susan Orlean

48. “Most of the pollution in the water already is dead animal and plant matter and building debris, … good stagnant nursery for mosquitoes.” — James Wright

50. “Some have supposed that the mosquito is devout and never will partake of a meal without first saying grace. The devotions of some men are but a preface to blood-sucking.” — Henry Ward Beecher

Which One of these Mosquito Quotes is your Favorite? 

These mosquito quotes prove that the pesky pests are supremely annoying to almost every human and most other animals on Earth.

Yet, they are a necessary part of the web of life.

Do you live in a place that has mosquitos?

Which of these mosquito quotes did you enjoy most?

Let us know in the comment section, we would love to hear from you!