How have I not known this all my life?

Other than the weedy habitat in my back yard and my general dislike for the little jerks, I admit my knowledge of mosquitoes is limited to "only the females bite" "carriers of several deadly diseases" and "need standing water to hatch their eggs".  

I have eliminated all of the standing water that sits long enough to collect larve (dog dish is changed daily so it doesn't count).  I have hacked down the jungle in my back yard and still I have a healthy population of skeeters at my house.

I would love to blame it on my neighbors who haven't done anything about their weedy back yard either but I can't.  After doing some research it turns out that mosquitoes eat 10x more nectar than they do blood.  They only need blood for reproduction.  So I have yet another reason to attempt to irradicate that lovely flowering menacing vine in my yard.  I am not attached to having humming birds in my yard, I could take them or leave them but the same flower that attracts them also is the food source for my unfriendly yard guests.

It is really hard to get rid of this vine because it reproduces so quickly.  Apparently you have to continually cut it down to the ground and put round up on the cut ends.  Hopefully this will only take a few years worth of applications because the stinking vine is everywhere in my yard.

If no vines means no mosquitoes then guess what I will be doing Saturday with all the other yard work.