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MOSQUITOES

THE TRUTH ABOUT. MOSQUITOES. www.bushman-repellent.com. A mosquito weighs 0.0025 grams. On average they are 16mm long. www.bushman-repellent.com. Mosquitoes use sensors around their mouthparts to detect the warmth of your body and the blood inside it…. www.bushman-repellent.com.

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MOSQUITOES

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  1. THE TRUTH ABOUT MOSQUITOES www.bushman-repellent.com

  2. A mosquito weighs 0.0025 grams On average they are 16mm long www.bushman-repellent.com

  3. Mosquitoes use sensors around their mouthparts to detect the warmth of your body and the blood inside it… www.bushman-repellent.com

  4. …they then land on you and locate the best capillaries to ‘tap’ into! www.bushman-repellent.com

  5. A mosquito takes 5-millionths of a litre of blood when it bites www.bushman-repellent.com

  6. It would take 1.2 million bites to drain your body dry of blood www.bushman-repellent.com

  7. Mosquito saliva contains some of the same ingredients as rat poison www.bushman-repellent.com

  8. A mosquito’s flaps it’s wings up to 600 times a second www.bushman-repellent.com

  9. Male mosquitoes locate females by the sound of their wings www.bushman-repellent.com

  10. Only the female mosquito sucks blood. It’s not for food. It’s to reproduce. www.bushman-repellent.com

  11. After you’ve been bitten it can take up to 10 minutes before an itchy lump appears! www.bushman-repellent.com

  12. If disturbed while feeding a mosquito will return several times until she is full of blood www.bushman-repellent.com

  13. Mosquitoes generally fly below 25 feet. However, they have been found 8,000 feet up in the Himalayas. www.bushman-repellent.com

  14. Mosquitoes kill a child every 30 seconds… www.bushman-repellent.com

  15. …so in the time it takes you to read this slide-show mosquitoes will have killed 6 more children! www.bushman-repellent.com

  16. …they killed 3,000 people yesterday, 3,000 people today and they’ll kill 3,000 people tomorrow… www.bushman-repellent.com

  17. …all in all mosquitoes will kill 1 million people this year… www.bushman-repellent.com

  18. …that’s the population of San Jose, California www.bushman-repellent.com

  19. …it’s widely accepted that mosquitoes have killed more people than all the wars that have ever been fought… www.bushman-repellent.com

  20. …more controversially some people believe that 50% of all the people that have ever lived have been killed by mosquitoes! www.bushman-repellent.com

  21. Mosquitoes don’t just kill humans, almost nothing is safe! They’ve even killed two Killer Whales in captivity!... www.bushman-repellent.com

  22. …and six penguins At London Zoo www.bushman-repellent.com

  23. Mosquitoes kill dogs and cats by giving them heart worm… www.bushman-repellent.com

  24. …and kill horses by giving them EEE (Eastern equine encephalitis virus) www.bushman-repellent.com

  25. Alexander the Great is believed to have died of malaria in 323 B.C. www.bushman-repellent.com

  26. There have been other famous people who have contracted malaria including American presidents Theodore Roosevelt and John F. Kennedy… www.bushman-repellent.com

  27. Mosquitoes have been around since the Jurassic period. So they are about 210 million years old... www.bushman-repellent.com

  28. …and they’re here to stay! The best way to avoid being attacked is to use the best repellent available! www.bushman-repellent.com

  29. Find out more at… Find out more at… www.bushman-repellent.com Thank you!

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