Let's Speak About Mosquitoes

Hmm, the most annoying creature on Earth. I wish, dearly, that it is EXTINCT!!! Okay, let's talk about some observations where one lives. Albeit, mosquitoes are quite annoying all the times, but in the recent years, it seems to have mutate for it to reproduce better.

First, mosquitoes are much smaller. In the past, aedes mosquitoes are a relative size. They were small, but not as small as they are now. In fact, their size shrink to about half or a third of which they used to be. You know it as the old species still remains at a rarer occurrences, and the new, smaller species thrives more.

Second, they no longer land first then sting. That is, previously, aedes mosquitoes will fly slower as they reaches your skin, put their legs on your skin, then tilt their head, prick their mouth into your skin. No more now. With the invention of electric swatter, this procedure is too slow, allowing them to be killed. Hence, they evolved to land-and-prick: which means they land mouth-first rather than leg-first. They prick into your skin first before their leg touches (if their mouth is long enough). This way, they can suck multiple times and be full.

Third, they're more reactive. That is, their reaction speed increases already. Also, they're more sensitive now. Previously, your hand may fly past and they're slow to react, but now they react almost as fast as a houseful (except they don't fly as fast as a housefly yet). This means, instead of having a single bump on your leg, you get a collection of bumps aggregated at a certain part of your skin (multiple prick, multiple bumps, logic).

Moreover, their bumps aren't itchy now. Old mosquitoes sting used to be itchy, but newer mosquitoes, perhaps they have some changes in the sting left behind inside your skin, causes pain instead. If a bunch of mosquitoes sting you at different part of your body skin, you feel pain throughout your surface skin.

That's for aedes mosquito.

Final observation. In my house, I noticed a mosquito yellow in color. It seems like it's anopheles mosquito, but I'm not sure, as it look much like but not exactly the same as images online. In the past, my country only have aedes mosquito. So that's another observation.

That's it for today! Still, I wish mosquitoes are extinct, so I can release my attention on them when I go outside in the future.

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Edit 22/07/2023

• Sequel here on a new mosquito species one found today.