Hello Friends, Welcome to the KrishCreepyInfos. Mosquitoes are fantastic insects in the world.
Mosquitoes have a slender segmented body, one pair of wings, one pair of halter's, three pairs of long hair-like legs, and elongated mouth parts.
1.The Mosquito Statue
The world`s largest statue of a mosquito is a local attraction in Komarno, Manitoba, the Mosquito Capital of Canada. ("Komarno" means in Ukrainian "mosquito"). The steel statue was made in 1984 and has a wingspan of 15 feet (5 m).
2. How far can mosquitoes travel?
Most mosquito species prefer to operate with a radius of 50 to 100 meters (160 to 320 feet) from their breeding ground. By and large, it’s very rare to see a mosquito more than 1.5 to 5 kilometres (1 – 3 miles) from their home.
3. How Long Do Mosquitoes Live?
The length of the mosquito life cycle and lifespan varies between species and is dependent upon environmental conditions such as temperature and moisture.
4. Mosquitoes Synchronize Their Wing Beats
Scientists once thought that only male mosquitoes could hear the wing beats of their potential mates, but recent research on Aedes aegypti mosquitoes proved females listen for lovers, too. When the male and female meet, their buzzing synchronizes to the same speed.
5. Can Mosquitoes See Color ?
According to entomologists at the University of Florida, found that mosquito color attraction is mainly focused on dark-colored clothing, such as black, navy, blue or red. These colors will especially attract a mosquito when they see movement at the same time. As explained before, the eyes of a mosquito are specialized in detecting movement.
6. Mosquitoes Life-cycles
Like all flies, mosquitoes go through four stages in their life cycles: egg, larva, pupa, and adult or imago. The first three stages—egg, larva, and pupa—are largely aquatic. Each of the stages typically lasts 5 to 14 days, depending on the species and the ambient temperature, but there are important exceptions.Mosquitoes living in regions where some seasons are freezing or waterless spend part of the year in diapause they delay their development, typically for months, and carry on with life only when there is enough water or warmth for their needs.
7. Mosquitoes were Dinosaur's nightmare
Burmaculex antiquus, was found in Burmese amber that is around 99 million years old. Paleoculicis minutus, was found in Canadian amber that is around 79-million-year-old from the Cretaceous.
8. Females Bite Humans While Males Feed on Nectar
While both male and female mosquitoes feed on nectar, the female uses the protein in blood to help her eggs develop.
9. Identification of males and females Mosquitoes
Male mosquitoes are relatively smaller than female mosquitoes. Male mosquitoes have bushy fine hairs on their long antennae (proboscis) which help them with hearing and in sensing their potential mates wing beats.Female mosquitoes antennae are less bushy and contain several blood odor receptors that help her target blood sources so that they can feed off their host.
10. There are about 3,500 known species, only 10% want our blood.There are more than 404 species and subspecies of mosquitoes in India.The common ones belong to Anopheles, Culex, Aedes and Mansonides.
11. Identification of Mosquitoes Species( Anopheles, Culex and Aedes)
Now Aedes mosquitoes are the easiest to identify. They are black and have white patches. Culex and Anopheles are yellow-ish, but you can identify them by observing their resting position. Anopheles mosquitoes have a ~45 degree angle, while Culex stay parallel to the surface. Microscopically, look for antenna morphology. Mansoniodes are breed on aquatic plants for the supply of oxygen.
12. Do Mosquitoes have Ears
Male mosquito "ears" have as many sensory cells as human ears, they help males identify and pursue the females. When a mosquito tracks down the whine of the opposite sex, it begins to synchronize its own pitch to fit that of the potential mate. Males can "relate" to girl frequencies in a second or two. Females take several times longer to synchronize.
13. Big and Small mosquito in Size comparison
a)The Gallinipper Mosquito can grow 20 times as large as the Asian Tiger mosquito – it ranges from 12.7 - 25.4mm (0.5 – 1 inch) – that’s an inch-long mosquito! It is second in length only to the Australian Elephant Mosquito/Toxorhynchites speciosus, which is about 1.5 inches in length, but does not feed on blood. Bites from the Gallinipper are reported to be much more painful and this mosquito can bite through clothing.
b)Biting midges range in body length from 1 - 4 mm (0.04 - 0.16 in) These tiny pests are often so small that they can fit through typical screens on windows and doors. In tropical regions, biting midges are known to transmit filarial worms to humans and blue tongue virus to livestock.
14. How Mosquitoes Identify they host to bite.
Mosquitoes have special receptors on their antennae that can detect the carbon dioxide that birds and mammals exhale. To detect you, mosquitoes use the carbon dioxide you exhale. People with high concentrations of steroids or cholesterol on their skin surface attract mosquitoes and this is a genetic trait.
15. How fast can mosquitoes fly?
The speed at which mosquitoes fly can depend on their species and sex, but most common mosquito species have an average speed between 1 and 1.5 miles per hour in a windless air.
16. A mosquito helped police to catch a Car thief.
Police in Lapua,Finland(June 2008) found a dead mosquito in a car that had been stolen. They tested the blood inside the mosquito and used it to identify the car thief.
17. How do mosquitoes breathe?
Mosquito trachea is covered with a permeable tissue that stores air and helps the mosquito to balance when flying, much like the way airbags work in birds.As insects, they have a type of breathing called “tracheal breathing“, which means that they breathe neither through the mouth nor through the nose, but oxygen enters their body naturally through small pores called spiracles that extend along the insects abdomen.
18. Droughts mean less mosquitoes
While mosquitoes breed in water, droughts are some of the most disease-promoting. The water may be less but it is dirtier and therefore appealing to mosquitoes. The lack of water sources means that mosquitoes and birds — who carry many of the mosquito-borne illnesses that affect us are crowded together to share the resource.
19. Mosquitoes prefer people with Blood Type O
Mosquitoes bite people because they require protein for breeding, not sugar. Some facets of a human’s genetics, such as skin bacteria, may have an effect, but blood type is not one of these factors.
20. The most effect mosquito repellent?
Most commercial repellents contain DEET or N,N-diethyl-meta-toluamide as their main insect-repelling ingredient. DEET works by blocking the receptors on their antennae that allow them to hone in on human beings.
