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for Yellow Fever Mosquito

This mosquito undergoes complete metamorphosis: egg, larva, pupa, and adult. Source: https://ask.ifas.ufl.edu/publication/IN792

Females lay roughly 100 to 200 eggs per batch and up to five batches in a lifetime, placing them just above the waterline on damp container walls so a later rise in water floods and hatches them. The eggs are remarkably tough, surviving months of drying before hatching once water returns. Source: https://ask.ifas.ufl.edu/publication/IN792

Larvae pass through four instars; the whole egg-to-adult cycle is quick in warm weather but stretches to months in the cold. Adults typically live two weeks to a month. Source: https://ask.ifas.ufl.edu/publication/IN792

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