INTERESTING: Did you know that male mosquitoes use you as their wingmen to find a mate?
Do you wake up and fight or do you cover your head and continue sleeping?
Vic Naidoo shared that one of the things he didn't welcome upon moving to Durban was the mosquitoes. And we cannot say we blame him. You would think that being a Durbanite would make you immune to these sneaky buggers, but not for everyone...
We were once privy to a conversation between a mother and child. The mother told the child, who was being bitten profusely by mosquitoes while they were on vacation on the South Coast, that the mosquitoes loved sweet blood and that is the reason they were biting the child.
Of course this was just another thing that parents concoct to make their children feel better on some level. But the innocence behind trying to rationalise being bitten and giving the upper hand to the mosquito is just wrong.
"Mosquitoes track you down from tens of metres away by sensing carbon dioxide in the air you breathe out. Within seconds, they home in on exposed skin and feast on your blood with an array of specialized needles." (MSN)
Doesn't sound appealing at all, does it? New research revealed that even though it's the females that are the blood suckers, males can be just as annoying.
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Recent research revealed that both males and females were both annoying. One is after your blood and the other just wants to hang out...
"Female mosquitoes are after your blood, but male mosquitoes just want to hang out. In our experiments, male mosquitoes continuously swarmed around people but rarely landed. By contrast, female mosquitoes land, drink their fill and then fly away to rest. Why are male mosquitoes interested in people if they can’t feed on your blood? We think it’s all about finding the females. Since female mosquitoes are often around people, male mosquitoes that have the same inclination should have greater reproductive success." (MSN)
Now isn't that a trip... They use us as their wingmen and still have a feast. That's not right on so many levels...
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