I would not be surprised that overall most bites do happen outdoors, but I was concentrating on Malaria. However, for many in cities, the bites take place close to home or when one is sleeping.
Mosquitoes going down in smoke.
Link from CNET:
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17852_3-10452992-71.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=Crave
Link to Youtube:
http://http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOxXJdX3eY4&feature=player_embedded#
It depends on the mosquito species. The mosquitoes that transmit dengue virus (Aedes aegypti) in the Americas and Asia, and the mosquitoes that transmit the bulk of malaria in Africa (Anopheles gambiae) are co-evolved to live with humans and live for the most part in the home/hut.
This is why residual spraying of DDT on the walls of the huts was so effective at reducing malaria transmission - it targeted the mosquitoes feeding on people that were responsible for the bulk of transmission.
In the developed world (USA) you don’t really have these species and are more likely to be fed on by others that are more generalist and feed outside.
Indeed mozchron, and thanks for that bit.
Over here in the USA there are more worries about the West Nile virus, so the Aedes albopictus mosquito (also known as the Asian Tiger Mosquito) would be the main target. In this case outdoor activities at dusk are one of the best chances to get bitten, but this still does not mean that indoors or close to home we should avoid using other tools besides bed nets, repellents and insecticides.
Mine must be able to do house-flies. If they can have an option to get the fly to explode with a little pop, I’ll pay extra.
To back up, aedes is a problem in Singapore and the local health board has to keep reminding people about clearing stagnant waters and spraying insecticide into drains.
And to think people said
A) Star Wars would never work
and
B) There would be no civilian spin offs from that program.
Cool, but I still like my idea of using tiny little SAMs to shoot down mosquitoes at home. Now if only I could find investors for the R&D…
Looking at the way slowed-down video really gives ya a mosquito’s perspective. To them it isn’t an instantaneous zap, it’s several moments of agony. Insects feel pain when they’re overheated. Also look at how their wings continue to flap after the laser pulse ends - at least some part of them is still alive when they start to fall (in fact it looks to me like all the laser is doing is destroying their wings).
This isn’t pesticide, it’s brutal torture! 
Great, I’m all for it! Only thing that would be better is if they could waterboard the little vampires.
And I. Don’t. Care. 
There’s something to be said about the mentality of inflicting suffering on another lifeform, no matter how insignificant, and not giving a flying fuck. All I’m saying is for goodness sake smash or poison the little bastards but don’t burn their wings off. 
Or to use an example, if a large rabid dog were threatening your (hypothetical) young child, and you concluded that the only solution was to kill the dog, would you do so quickly and humanely or would you burn the animal alive?
[Not original, I know.]
WANT!
Preferably free from a corn or soybean seed supplier on one of their stylish caps.
You could have one fitted above every door and window and then you could do away with screens. In a hot and humid place like where I live, that would be fantastic because screens cut down on airflow notably.
There is nothing to be said. I want 'em dead. Write is off as a difference in philosophy if ya want. They find me too yummy. I hate having to dose up on DEET if I want to BBQ dinner.
West Nile virus sucks. Ask me how I know. Nuke 'em from space, it’s the only way to be sure.
Do the math. The video you saw was incredibly slowed-down, and this device kills 50-100 mosquitoes per second. Squashing them with your hand is probably slower.
If anything, this device is more humane.
Do we actually know that, especially for insects as small as mosquitoes?
I’m actually kind of interested in this question, though the idea that a roach might be suffering after my initial attempt to squash it brings up (as it does for some in this thread) mixed feelings…
Evidence is they don’t feel pain when squished, for example an insect will put full weight on a damaged limb. I’ll dig up a cite when I can, between work and other obligations. Arthropods do feel heat and electric shocks, however - at least an earwig will squirm violently if placed under a heat lamp.
For an animal capable of flapping their wings a couple hundred times per second, it doesn’t seem logical that they would experience time the same way we do.
Insects have so little mass that it may not be possible for them to put enough weight on a damaged limb to actually hurt them (assuming they can feel pain). An ant, for example, can fall any distance and yet be unharmed.