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Why are mosquitoes called mosquitoes?

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The Spanish called the mosquitoes musketas and native Hispanic Americans called them zancudos. Mosquito is a Spanish or Portuguese word meaning little fly while zancudos, a Spanish word, means long legged. The use of the word mosquito is apparently of North American origin and dates back to 1583.

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Because “Bob” was taken.

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