Here are some interesting facts about mosquitoes (copied from a site to which I give credit at the end of this list):
-You're more likely to be a target for mosquitoes if you consume bananas.
-Biting activity increase by 500 times when there is a full moon.
-A mosquito's wings beat 500 times a second.
-The animal responsible for the most human deaths world-wide is the mosquito.
-Mosquitoes dislike citronella because it irritates their feet.
-Mosquitoes prefer children to adults, and blondes to brunettes.
-A mosquito can detect a moving target at 18 ft away.
-The average life span of a female mosquito is 3 to 100 days. the male lives 10 to 20 days.
-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), and develop from egg to adulthood in 4 to 7 days.
This all came from (http://www.thaibugs.com/Articles/amazing_mosquito_facts.htm) and is not at all in my own words. Also, the site I just credited credits another site (http://www.control-mosquitoes.com/) so if you wanna know more you should check those out. Not sure why you'd want to know more about mosquitoes but hey, whatever.
So that was fun. Kind of interesting about the banana thing. Also, something that isn't mentioned here but is on the aforementioned site, mosquitoes are apparently attracted to carbon dioxide and lactic acid. So does that mean a lactose intolerant person breath into a tree and not be bitten by mosquitoes? Just a thought.
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