MOSQUITOES THE TRUTH ABOUT .

MOSQUITOESTHE TRUTH ABOUT

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A mosquito weighs0.0025 grams

On average they are 16mm long


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Mosquitoes use sensors around their mouthparts to detect the warmth of your body and the blood

inside it…



…they then land on you and locate the

best capillaries to ‘tap’ into!



A mosquito takes 5-millionths of a litre

of blood when it bites



It would take 1.2 million bites to drain

your body dry of blood



Mosquito saliva contains some of

the same ingredients as rat

poison



A mosquito’s flaps it’s wings up to 600

times a second



Male mosquitoes locate females by the sound of their

wings



Only the female mosquito sucks blood.

It’s not for food.

It’s to reproduce.



After you’ve been bitten it can take up to 10 minutes before an itchy lump appears!



If disturbed while feeding a mosquito will return several

times until she is full of blood



Mosquitoes generally fly below

25 feet.

However, they have been found 8,000

feet up in the Himalayas.



Mosquitoes kill a child every 30

seconds…



…so in the time it takes you to read

this slide-show mosquitoes will

have killed 6 more children!



…they killed 3,000 people yesterday,

3,000 people today and they’ll kill 3,000 people tomorrow…



…all in all mosquitoes will kill

1 million people this year…



…that’s the population of San

Jose, California



…it’s widely accepted that

mosquitoes have killed more people than all the wars

that have ever been fought…



…more controversially some people

believe that 50% of all the people that

have ever lived have been killed by

mosquitoes!



Mosquitoes don’t just kill humans, almost

nothing is safe!

They’ve even killed two Killer Whales in captivity!...



…and six penguinsAt London Zoo



Mosquitoes kill dogs and cats by giving

them heart worm…



…and kill horses by giving them EEE

(Eastern equine encephalitis virus)



Alexander the Great is believed to have died of malaria in 323 B.C.



There have been other famous people who have contracted malaria

including American presidents Theodore

Roosevelt and John F. Kennedy…



Mosquitoes have been around since the Jurassic period.

So they are about 210 million years old...




…and they’re here to stay!

The best way to avoid being attacked is to

use the best repellentavailable!



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