Fun Fact Friday – Mosquitoes II
- Mosquitoes feed day and night.
- Mosquito is Spanish for “little fly.”
- Mosquitoes generally fly below 25 feet.
- An adult mosquito may live 5-6 months.
- Sweat helps mosquitoes choose their victims.
- West Virginia has the fewest species of mosquitoes.
- Female mosquitoes can lay up to 300 eggs at a time.
- The bumps from mosquito bites are caused by saliva.
- Malaria is caused by a parasite that lives in mosquitoes.
- Mosquitoes have been around since the Jurassic period.
- A mosquito can drink up to three times its weight in blood.
- All mosquitoes require water to breed. Some species can breed in puddles left after a rainstorm.