Mosquito

• Mob
• Item

Mosquito
Stats
	100
Combat
Damage	3 (34 by explosion)
Attack Period	2
Attack Range	4
Movement
Walking Speed	8
Running Speed	12
Traits
Special Ability	Explodes after sucking enough blood
Loot	50%, ()
Spawns from	, (0.1%)
Code
"mosquito"

Mosquito
Properties
Stacks up to	20
Perk
Can be "murdered" for (50%)
Sources
Dropped by	()
Code
"mosquito"

“Bloody blood sucking blood suckers.”

–Maxwell

A Mosquito is a hostile Mob that spawns from Ponds, at dusk and night, in Marsh biomes. Mosquitoes are fast-moving and aggressive.

Because they deal a relatively small amount of damage, farming them can be profitable for health from their Mosquito Sacks. They have a small red blood sac which grows with each successful attack. On the 4th successful attack, the Mosquito will explode and cause additional damage to its surroundings.

Mosquitoes will not spawn during Winter, as their Ponds will be frozen throughout the season.

Hunting

The most effective way to deal with Mosquitoes is to capture them with a Bug Net. When caught, the Mosquito will turn into an item in the player's inventory, which can be Murdered for a chance. Due to their fast flying speed, Mosquitoes are difficult to hit with melee weapons. When hit, the Mosquito will be "stunlocked" and spin around for a moment before recovering. This makes it really easy to kill them in a 1vs1 fight.

Below is the number of hits it takes with each weapon to kill Mosquitoes when playing with characters with a default damage modifier.The Weather Pain is not included due to the random nature of its projectile.

Weapon
No. of hits for	24	8	6	4	3	2-4	2 or 3	2	1

Mosquitoes take one blast from the Ice Staff to be frozen and one Sleep Dart to be put to sleep.

Reign of Giants

In Don't Starve: Reign of Giants, Mosquitoes can be collected by harvesting Tumbleweeds. Mosquitoes inside the player's inventory will starve in 2 days unless fed. They can be fed with anything edible to the player, even Mandrakes, Deerclops Eyeballs, Rot, and such.

Trivia

• Mosquitoes were added in A Little Rain Must Fall.
• Mosquitoes originally spawned from the same Ponds as Frogs, but that has been changed so each spawns from separate, different colored Ponds (Mosquito Ponds are darker).
• Before the All Well That's Maxwell update, Mosquitoes didn't drop anything.
• The fact that Mosquitoes spawn from Ponds is based on the fact that real Mosquito eggs are typically laid in stagnant water, which is what ponds are usually composed of.

Gallery

A mosquito spawning pond.

A frozen mosquito.

Maxwell's Mosquito trap; an unimplemented item.

Sleeping mosquito.png

A sleeping Mosquito.

Mosquito Full.png

A Mosquito with a full sack.

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