Kearny, don’t know if it’s true, but some tick experts are starting to wonder if mosquitos are passing on lyme and/or other tick like diseases.
Here is a great article for those that live in the South and Midwest regarding tick disease.
http://discovermagazine.com/2013/dec/14-southern-gothic
That thought is terrifying; they are much harder to protect against than ticks. Even the diseases they are known to transmit are bad enough...