Check your home to rid it of standing water, which is where mosquitoes can lay their eggs.

People should empty out open containers of water (so that mosquitoes cannot lay eggs in them).

Research has shown that certain chemicals emanating from bacteria in water containers stimulate the female mosquitoes to lay their eggs.

Manson incorrectly hypothesized that the disease was transmitted through skin contact with water in which the mosquitoes had laid eggs.

The black ovitrap attracts female mosquitoes to lay their eggs.

This mosquito lays its eggs at the rack line, the inland reach of the twice-monthly lunar tides.

When flood water dries up," he says, "the female mosquito lays eggs in the mud.

The mosquito lays its eggs in water, has aquatic larvae and feeds by sucking blood.

In the days following the storm, many mosquitoes and other insects laid eggs in areas of standing water, causing a large increase in their numbers.

This mosquito lays its eggs on the inland edges of the salt marsh, where they will be touched only by the high twice-monthly lunar tides.