A mosquito sucks the blood of the craft's deceased extraterrestrial pilot, causing the insect to mutate to an abnormally large size.

Parks' radiation monitor begins detecting radioactivity, and they track the source to the boat containing the dead fishing ranger.

As the mosquitoes attack through the windows, Megan accidentally opens a side door and hangs precariously from it, before being saved by Ray.

Earl breaks free from his restraints, uses a hatchet to save Junior from a mosquito, and threatens to kill Megan.

As the group crawls through a pipe to evade the swarm, Junior is impaled by a mosquito, causing his eyes to bulge and explode.

They return outside the next morning and split up; Ray, Earl, and Hendricks investigate a nearby farmhouse while Megan and Parks search for the "meteorite".

The group rigs the house to explode by breaking its gas line and opening up the windows, and Ray and Megan escape to the roof by taking turns in a dumbwaiter.

Ray and Megan jump from the roof, and the house explodes with Earl, Parks, Hendricks's dead body and the mosquitoes inside.

Director Gary Jones originally planned for the film to revolve around group of criminals, beginning with a large bank heist and ending with a violent shootout, but this was deemed too expensive.

][verification needed] The script was subsequently rewritten by Tom Chaney, and the film's original title was Skeeters.

Upon learning that a film named Skeeter, which had a similar concept about killer mosquitoes, was already recently produced, the title was changed to Blood Fever.

[5][6][2] The mosquito that explodes when shot by Earl was a rubber puppet that contained the film crew's leftovers from their lunch break, in order to simulate the insect's internal organs and fluids.

[2] The film's original special effects artist supposedly left the set during production to smoke cigarettes and never returned.

[11] Felix Vasquez Jr. of Cinema Crazed gave the film a mostly positive review, writing that "Mosquito is a classically bad monster movie with a low budget, and a neat idea.