mosquitoes the truth about
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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…
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…they then land on you and locate the
best capillaries to ‘tap’ into!
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A mosquito takes 5-millionths of a litre
of blood when it bites
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It would take 1.2 million bites to drain
your body dry of blood
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Mosquito saliva contains some of
the same ingredients as rat
poison
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A mosquito’s flaps it’s wings up to 600
times a second
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Male mosquitoes locate females by the sound of their
wings
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Only the female mosquito sucks blood.
It’s not for food.
It’s to reproduce.
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After you’ve been bitten it can take up to 10 minutes before an itchy lump appears!
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If disturbed while feeding a mosquito will return several
times until she is full of blood
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Mosquitoes generally fly below
25 feet.
However, they have been found 8,000
feet up in the Himalayas.
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Mosquitoes kill a child every 30
seconds…
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…so in the time it takes you to read
this slide-show mosquitoes will
have killed 6 more children!
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…they killed 3,000 people yesterday,
3,000 people today and they’ll kill 3,000 people tomorrow…
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…all in all mosquitoes will kill
1 million people this year…
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…that’s the population of San
Jose, California
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…it’s widely accepted that
mosquitoes have killed more people than all the wars
that have ever been fought…
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…more controversially some people
believe that 50% of all the people that
have ever lived have been killed by
mosquitoes!
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Mosquitoes don’t just kill humans, almost
nothing is safe!
They’ve even killed two Killer Whales in captivity!...
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Mosquitoes kill dogs and cats by giving
them heart worm…
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…and kill horses by giving them EEE
(Eastern equine encephalitis virus)
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Alexander the Great is believed to have died of malaria in 323 B.C.
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There have been other famous people who have contracted malaria
including American presidents Theodore
Roosevelt and John F. Kennedy…
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Mosquitoes have been around since the Jurassic period.
So they are about 210 million years old...
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…and they’re here to stay!
The best way to avoid being attacked is to
use the best repellentavailable!
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Thank you!
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