Mosquito bites are one of the most common type of insect bite, and they are easy to identify once you know what they look like.
If you look closely at a mosquito bite, you will see that there is a single puncture wound in the center of the bite, which is indicative of where the proboscis of the mosquito entered the skin.
When a mosquito bites, it injects saliva into the skin, causing an allergic reaction that results in a red raised bump on the skin that is very itchy.
There may be two or more mosquito bites next to each other on the skin, as well, because the mosquito will engorge itself on blood until he can eat no more.
The itching of a mosquito bite usually begins just minutes after the bite, and last for several hours until the itching subsides.
If you want to see exactly what a mosquito bite looks like, please click on the image in the right sidebar of this webpage, which will take you to the mosquito image gallery that contains photographs of mosquito bites.