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Did you know? Mosquitoes don't need your blood for food; most mosquito nutrition comes from flower nectar.
Did you know? Only the female mosquito bites.
Did you know? The average mosquito consumes one millionth of a gallon of blood per ?ite.?At that rate it would take about 1,120,000 bites to drain the blood from an average adult human.
Did you know? A mosquito can bite more than once. A female goes out for a blood meal whenever she needs protein for her eggs. She can feed multiple times and usually makes between one and three batches of eggs during her lifecycle.
Did you know? Mosquito larvae are cannibals. If the mosquito larvae are crowded the larger, older larva will eat the smaller, freshly hatched larvae.
Did you know? Mosquitoes have been consuming blood for about 2 million years.
Did you know? A female mosquito can lay as many as several hundred eggs in one batch.
Did you know? Citronella candles should never be lit indoors; the chemical that drives mosquitoes away is also harmful to your health.
Historical Fact: Early Spanish expeditions to the Americas led by Hernando De Soto felt the wrath of mosquitoes. Half of his men never made it off of American soil because of mosquito-borne disease.
Historical Fact: Sir Patrick Manson (1844-1922) made the first assertion that mosquitoes transmit malaria.
Historical Fact: Sir Ronald Ross (1857-1932) won the 1902 Nobel Prize for proving that mosquitoes transmit malaria.
Historical Fact: Carlos Juan Finlay (1833-1915) in 1881 suggested that mosquito was the carrier of yellow fever, and then later specified the correct species, Aedes aegypti.
Historical Fact: Walter Reed (1851-1902) Reed proved Finaly's theory of mosquitoes as the carrier of yellow fever.
Fact: Mosquitoes can't ?at?too much. If a mosquito gets too bloated with blood to fly away from her victim, she releases a little ballast to help her become airborne. She does this by emptying out the mosquito equivalent to a bladder. In essence she piddles on you.
Fact: Mosquitoes lay their eggs in standing water. Some lay eggs at the waters edge, others lay them on the surface of the water. Some lay eggs singly while others lay their eggs in clusters called rafts.
Fact: Mosquitoes fly at the rate of 2.5 miles per hour
Fact: A typical mosquito weighs about 2.5 milligrams.
Fact: Mosquitoes can not transmit AIDS. Mosquitoes actually digest the virus.
Fact: Mosquitoes kill more humans than any other animal.
Fact: Malaria affects 300 million people per year
Fact: Mosquitoes transmit diseases to pets too. Have you ever heard of canine heartworm?
True or False? Eating lots of garlic and spicy foods will keep mosquitoes away. FALSE!
True or False? Taking vitamin B1 will make you naturally repellent to mosquitoes. FALSE! This claim is medically unfounded.
 
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