What do mosquito larvae look like? Well they look like this – some wrigglers the Town Health Services found while out checking mosquito numbers. If you see these in water around your place, tip the water out! They’re like a hairy tube with a head at one end - as you can see they really do wriggle, moving round with a twitching motion. This short vision shows several sizes of larvae, from the very small to larger ones ready to progress to the pupae stage. The good news is mosquito activity is low