The diagram illustrates the life cycle of the female mosquito, giving details about the various developmental stages.
Overall, the life cycle of female mosquitoes depends on four major stages: egg, larval, pupal and adult stage which takes about 8 weeks. This life process involves about 7 phases; in all, each larval stage is larger than the previous one.
Initially, the female mosquito lays eggs somewhere around dirty water or other water bodies. After a week, the eggs hatch into the first larval stage. Consequently, the first larval stage develops into the second stage, then the third, and then the fourth larval stage with time. This process involves a time period of five weeks.
At week 6, the fourth larval stage evolves into the pupal stage. The larval and pupal stages are aquatic and, additionally, each larval stage is far bigger than the previous one. Once all these stagesare accomplished, the body parts of mosquitoes grow gradually. In approximately, in the 7th to 8th week, the young female mosquito is fully matured and ready to fly