Mosquitoes are small flying insects that are known for biting and sucking blood. However, only the female species bites humans and animals. They are known to carry diseases like malaria and yellow fever.
The female mosquitoes bites to feed on your blood.They get protein and other component from your blood to develop there eggs. Don't be too stingy a bite will not kill you.
Mosquitoes don't have teeth. The females “bite” with a long, pointed mouthpart called a proboscis. They use the serrated proboscis to pierce the skin and locate a capillary, then draw blood through one of two tubes
In every twenty seconds, a child is reported of dying due to malaria sickness. So you can see how dangerous they are.
Mosquitoes are greedy, they can drink up to three times their weight in blood. Don't worry, though it will take 1.2 million bites to drain all the blood from your body. Wow!
The average mosquito lifespan is less than two months. Males have the shortest lives, usually 10 days or less, and females can live about six to eight weeks, under ideal conditions. The females lay eggs about every three days during that time.
Mosquitoes love carbon dioxide. They addicted to it. Carbon dioxide is one of the ways mosquitoes locate their next feast. They use a special organ called a maxillary palp to follow the smell of CO2 released from our breath.
Mosquitoes use heat sensors around their mouthparts to detect the warmth of your body – actually, the blood inside it – then land on you and locate the best capillaries for tapping.
There are lot of mosquitoes.
According to American Mosquito Control Association, there are about 3,000 different species of mosquito throughout the world.
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