Fun Mosquito Facts
- The wings of a Culex mosquito beats 250 to 500 beats
per second
- Before feeding, the mosquito probes the skin as much
as 20 times
- 2.7 million people die each year from malaria
- Mosquito means "little fly" in Spanish
- Male mosquitoes hatch nearly a whole day before female mosquitoes
hatch
- Some mosquitoes are very particular on where they feed on the
human body--one species, Sabethes belisarioi, feeds exclusively
on the nose.
- Cases of larval "cannibalism" exist when food supplies are
low.
- Mosquitoes have six stylets in their proboscis, which they use
for sucking up blood and spitting out saliva as an anticoagulant.
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