What we know, don’t know, and think we know about the predators of mosquitoes.

he malaria-transmitting mosquito Anopheles gambiae is eaten by species of bats, birds, damselflies, dragonflies, and spiders, although the mosquito likely accounts for only a small percentage of their total diet¹.While there is limited data on the predation of adult An. gambiae at blood-feeding, nectar-feeding, and breeding sites, my research will use DNA metabarcoding techniques combined with ecological network analyses to determine the diet of predators and the community structure of predator-prey interactions.