- A mosquito's wings beat 500 times a second.
- The animal responsible for the most human deaths world-wide is the
mosquito.
- Mosquitoes dislike citronella because it irritates their feet.
- Mosquitoes prefer children to adults, and blondes to brunettes.
- A mosquito can detect a moving target at 18 ft away
- The average life span of a female mosquito is 3 to 100 days. the male
lives 10 to 20 days.
- Mosquitoes: lay up to 300 eggs at a time, fly across 150 miles in
their lifetime, range from sea level to altitudes as high as 10,800
feet (3,600 meters), develop from egg to adulthood in 4 to 7 days
- :About 2,700 species of mosquitoes are there
- a mosquito weighs about 2-2.5milligrams
- a female mosquito drinks About 5-millionths of a liter per, er, serving
- Mosquitoes find new hosts by sight (they observe movement); by detecting
infra-red radiation emitted by warm bodies; and by chemical signals
(mosquitoes are attracted to carbon dioxide and lactic acid, among other
chemicals).
- a mosquito can fly estimated 1 to 1.5 miles per hour.
- Salt marsh mosquitoes migrate 75 to 100 miles.
- A mosquito smells you, or a cow or another host from 20-25meters.
- Mosquitoes don't see very well, but they zoom in like a heat-seeking
missile.
- In the spherical arrangement of their compound eyes, blind spots separate
each eye from the next one. As a result, they can't see you until they
are 30 feet (10 meters) away. Even then, they have trouble distinguishing
you from any object of similar size and shape: tree stump, 55-gallon
drum, etc.
- When they are 10 feet (3 meters) away they use extremely sensitive
thermal receptors on the tip of their antennae to locate blood near
the surface of the skin. The range of these receptors increases threefold
when the humidity is high.
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