Development time from egg to adult mosquito depends on species and temperature, ranging from 7 days at an average temperature of 31°C, to 20 days at an average temperature of 20°C. Average life span of a female mosquito under favorable conditions is about 2 weeks with some living 3-4 weeks.

Females lay eggs 3-6 days after they emerge. Single blackish anopheline eggs of about 0.5 mm length air-filled floats that let them drift on the water surface. Eggs hatch 2-3 days after being laid. The larvas do not have the air tube or siphon found in other mosquito larvas. They float horizontally on the surface of the water, and after molting three times develop into pupas that emerge as adults after 2-4 days. Needing a blood meal for the development of their eggs, all female mosquitoes bite at less than 3 km from their breeding sites, but many live within just 30 m diameter from where they were born. Also note that anophelene mosqitoes are dusk and dawn biters like Aedes aegypti.

How long does sporogony take in what conditions and in what vector hosts? How do such variables affect VECTOR COMPETENCE ?