Thank goodness male mosquitoes can't bite … anymore! 😳 Today’s male mosquitoes feed on nectar, while females need protein from blood for their egg development. The female mosquitoes' blood feeding can cause an allergic response; they’re the ones to blame for some of those itchy bug bites! Travel back to the Cretaceous period and you might have twice as many reasons to itch. A recently discovered piece of Lower Cretaceous amber contained two male mosquitoes with piercing mouthparts, leading scie