Tree Mosquito

The tree mosquito is an annoying insect that lives on the islands in the Merisack Chain. The tree mosquito exclusively uses the poison sycamore tree to lay its eggs.
  The Tree Mosquito life cycle is egg, larva, pupa, adult. The adults find a poison sycamore to lay their eggs. The eggs are laid on the leaves towards the base of the leaf, where water tends to collect once it rains. The eggs hatch if they are lucky enough to get watered. The hatchlings, which are larvae, tiny little worm-like creatures, start to feed on the leaf on which they were born. Once the tiny larva tripled in size, it went into the pupa stage. They attach to the bottom of a leaf and form a thin-shelled pod. In this pod, they go from a larva worm-like creature to one that has very thin legs attached to a body with a needle-like mouth and dark brown wings with tan patches. After about a month within the pupa stage, the tree mosquito breaks the thin shell of its pod and crawls out. Once out, it sits for a little bit waiting for everything to finish hardening. Once that is done it flies away.
  The tree mosquito's main source of food is tree sap, mostly from the poison sycamore, but other trees will do. Although for females to reproduce, they need to have a blood meal. The blood gives the female protein to make the eggs.
  The tree mosquito mostly only goes after birds for this blood meal, but occasionally, they will find other hosts.
  For the most part, the Tree mosquitoes do not bother the populace of the Merisack chain islands. However, over the last few years, a new illness has appeared and is looking to be linked to the Tree Mosquitos.