Mosquito Adults in Lakeland |
Adult mosquitoes are truly our adversaries, they've been around for centuries. In the state of Florida, they were the main reason for slow development and growth of the population here. A few facts about adult mosquitoes are:
- Mosquito only weighs 1/25,000 of an once.
- Mosquitoes are responsible for more human deaths than any other living creature
- Only female mosquitoes bite, they need protein from the blood to lay their eggs
- Male mosquito survived by sucking on nectar and other plant juices.
- The welt that appears after a mosquito bite is an allergic reaction to the saliva that is injected into your skin to prevent your blood from clotting.
- Mosquitoes rarely travel farther than 300 feet from the birthplace.
- Light colors are less attractive to mosquitoes than dark colors.
- Mosquitoes are found all over the world even in the Arctic.
- Like humans, mosquitoes have food preferences.
- The attractive level of each individual to biting mosquitoes is based on a complex interaction of many chemical and visual signals such as body heat.
- One local species of mosquito feeds during the day, while many other species prevalent in our area feet at dusk and throughout the night time.
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