Culiseta is a genus of mosquito

Mosquito

Mosquitoes are members of a family of nematocerid flies: the Culicidae . The word Mosquito is from the Spanish and Portuguese for little fly...

es. Most Culiseta are cold-adapted species which only occur in warmer climates during the colder parts of the year or at higher elevations where temperatures are low. The larva

Larva

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e of most species are found in ground waters such as bogs, marshes, ponds, streams

STREAMS

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, ditches, and rock-pool

Tide pool

Tide pools are rocky pools by oceans that are filled with seawater. Many of these pools exist as separate entities only at low tide.Tide pools are habitats of uniquely adaptable animals that have engaged the special attention of naturalists and marine biologists, as well as philosophical...

s, but an African species occurs in tree-holes (phytotelma), a common eastern Palaearctic species occurs in water well

Water well

A water well is an excavation or structure created in the ground by digging, driving, boring or drilling to access groundwater in underground aquifers. The well water is drawn by an electric submersible pump, a trash pump, a vertical turbine pump, a handpump or a mechanical pump...

s and rock-pools, and several Australian species occur underground. Little is known about the blood-feeding habit

Hematophagy

Hematophagy is the practice of certain animals of feeding on blood...

s of females. Most species feed on birds and mammal

Mammal

Mammals are members of a class of air-breathing vertebrate animals characterised by the possession of endothermy, hair, three middle ear bones, and mammary glands functional in mothers with young...

s, but a few feed on reptile

Reptile

Reptiles are members of a class of air-breathing, ectothermic vertebrates which are characterized by laying shelled eggs , and having skin covered in scales and/or scutes. They are tetrapods, either having four limbs or being descended from four-limbed ancestors...

s. Several species attack domestic animals and occasionally humans.

Culiseta is found in throughout the world, except in South America.