{"id":123,"date":"2010-04-10T06:36:12","date_gmt":"2010-04-10T13:36:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thaibugs.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=123"},"modified":"2010-04-10T06:36:12","modified_gmt":"2010-04-10T13:36:12","slug":"mosquitoes","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.thaibugs.com\/?page_id=123","title":{"rendered":"Facts about mosquitoes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- A { \tTEXT-DECORATION: none } --><span style=\"font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: x-large;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/69.93.146.30\/~thaibugs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/Aedes-aegypti.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-377\" title=\"Aedes aegypti\" src=\"http:\/\/thaibugs.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/Aedes-aegypti-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thaibugs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/Aedes-aegypti-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thaibugs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/Aedes-aegypti.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Amazing mosquito facts<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: x-small;\">You&#8217;re more likely to be a target for  mosquitoes if you consume bananas.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: x-small;\">Biting activity increases by 500 times when  there is a full moon.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: x-small;\">A mosquito&#8217;s wings beat 500 times a  second.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: x-small;\">The animal responsible for the most human  deaths world-wide is the mosquito.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: x-small;\">Mosquitoes dislike citronella because it  irritates their feet.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: x-small;\">Mosquitoes prefer children to adults, and  blondes to brunettes.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: x-small;\">A mosquito can detect a moving target at 18  ft away<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: x-small;\">The average life span of a female mosquito  is 3 to 100 days. the male lives 10 to 20  days. <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: x-small;\"> Mosquitoes: lay up to 300 eggs at a time,  fly across 150 miles in their lifetime, range from sea level to altitudes as  high as 10,800 feet (3,600 meters), develop from egg to adulthood in 4 to 7 days <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: x-small;\">There are over 2,700 species of mosquitoes. <\/span><span style=\"font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: x-small;\">A mosquito weighs about  2 to 2.5 milligrams (for an Aedes aegypti). <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: x-small;\">A female mosquito  drinks <\/span><span style=\"font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: x-small;\">about 5-millionths of a liter <\/span><span style=\"font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: x-small;\">per, er, serving <\/span><span style=\"font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: x-small;\">(for an Aedes  aegypti).<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: x-small;\"> <\/span><span style=\"font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: x-small;\">Mosquitoes find new hosts <\/span><span style=\"font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: x-small;\">by sight (they observe movement); by detecting infra-red radiation emitted by  warm bodies; and by chemical signals (mosquitoes are attracted to carbon dioxide  and lactic acid, among other chemicals). <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: x-small;\">A mosquito can fly <\/span><span style=\"font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: x-small;\">1 to 1.5 miles per hour.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: x-small;\">Salt marsh mosquitoes migrate 75 to 100 miles. <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: x-small;\">A mosquito can smell you, a cow or another host at 20 to 35 meters. <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: x-small;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: x-small;\">Mosquitoes don&#8217;t see very well, but they  zoom in like a heat-seeking missile. In the spherical arrangement of their  compound eyes, blind spots separate each eye from the next one. As a result,  they can&#8217;t see you until they are 30 feet (10 meters) away. Even then, they have  trouble distinguishing you from any object of similar size and shape: tree  stump, 55-gallon drum, etc. When they are 10 feet (3 meters) away they use  extremely sensitive thermal receptors on the tip of their antennae to locate  blood near the surface of the skin. The range of these receptors increases  threefold when the humidity is high.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: x-small;\"><a href=\" http:\/\/www.control-mosquitoes.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.control-mosquitoes.com\/\"><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: x-small;\">Why don&#8217;t mosquitoes transmit HIV  virus?<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: x-small;\">Studies with HIV clearly show that the virus responsible for the AIDS  infection is regarded as food to the mosquito and is digested along with the  blood meal. Mosquitoes do not ingest enough HIV particles to transmit AIDS by cContamination. An AIDS-free individual would have to be bitten by 10 million  mosquitoes that had begun feeding on an AIDS carrier to receive a single unit of  HIV from contaminated mosquito mouthparts.Most people have heard that mosquitoes  regurgitate saliva before they feed, but are unaware that the food canal and  salivary canal are separate passageways in the mosquito. The mosquito&#8217;s feeding  apparatus is an extremely complicated structure that is totally unlike the crude  single-bore syringe. Unlike a syringe, the mosquito delivers salivary fluid  through one passage and draws blood up another. As a result, the food canal is  not flushed out like a used needle, and blood flow is always unidirectional. The  mechanics involved in mosquito feeding are totally unlike the mechanisms  employed by the drug user&#8217;s needles. In short, mosquitoes are not flying  hypodermic needles and a mosquito that disgorges saliva into your body is not  flushing out the remnants of its last blood meal.<br \/>\nRutgers Cooperative  Extension Fact Sheet # FS736<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amazing mosquito facts You&#8217;re more likely to be a target for mosquitoes if you consume bananas. Biting activity increases by 500 times when there is a full moon. A mosquito&#8217;s wings beat 500 times a second. The animal responsible for the most human deaths world-wide is the mosquito. 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