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Male mosquitoes can find female mosquitoes by listening to the sound of their wings beating. The male can actually identify the correct species by the pitch of the female’s wings. .
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Male mosquitoes can find female mosquitoes by listening to the sound of their wings beating. The male can actually identify the correct species by the pitch of the female’s wings. A mosquito can smell the carbon dioxide you exhale (breathe out) from about 60-75 feet away. That’s about the distance of 2 classrooms. To study mosquitoes, Arctic researchers uncovered their chests, arms and legs and reported as many as 9000 mosquito bites per person, per minute. Some people are more attractive to mosquitoes than others. It is not clear why, but probably has something to do with the 300 plus chemicals made by the human skin. Click to find out fun mosquito facts! Most mosquitoes do not fly very far from their larval habitat, but the salt marsh mosquito migrates 75-100 miles over their life span. An adult female mosquito drinks about 5-millionths of a liter in a single blood meal. An adult female mosquito weighs only about 2 milligrams. A paper clip weighs about 1000 milligrams. Mosquitoes can fly about 1- 1½miles per hour. Humans walk about 2-4 miles per hour. A mosquito’s wing beats from 300-600 times per second! Hummingbird’s wings beat only 80 times per second! Eggs of floodwater mosquitoes may remain dormant (stay eggs) for several YEARS and then hatch when they are covered with water.
