Talk:House of Evolution/@comment-130.105.230.81-20170110102100/@comment-86.165.144.116-20190818095857

The average female mosquito has the capacity to lay up to 500 eggs throughout her adult life. Of note is that mosquitoes are pretty lazy, moving no more than a mile from the place where they originally hatched.

The female mosquitoes of Culex and most other species lay their eggs in batches of 50 to 100, often in tiny clumps about a quarter-inch long that float together on the surface of the water like a raft. They make those deposits on water that's collected in tree holes, ditches, even your dog's water dish.

However, some species will lay mosquito eggs on moist, often-flooded soil in anticipation of the next rise in water. Those eggs can survive winter, waiting for spring or summer rains to cover them over. Females usually deposit their eggs at night, and can lay them about every third night, up to three times.

Of note is that the sole reason why female mosquitoes need blood is to provide protein for their eggs. For themselves, when they are not pregnant, they subsist mainly on other foods such as nectar and fruit juice like their male counterparts.

Once they've gotten blood, the mosquitoes fly away to a warm, damp place to rest and wait for their eggs to develop. That takes up to five days. The females lay their eggs, and then move on to the next blood meal to feed the next batch of eggs.

Female mosquitoes can lay a set of up to 100 eggs about every third night after mating only once. They typically lay as many as three sets before dying.

Source: https://www.megacatch.com/mosquito-faqs/mosquito-life-cycle.html

As there is no mention of a male mosquito monster, if there are eggs it is likely that she was either artificially inseminated or that there was another process. So it is possible that if not her, one or a few hundred of her progeny may be drifting out there somewhere.