There are roughly 144,000 mosquitoes for every person on earth.
Mosquitoes do not feed on blood. Mosquito adults feed on flower nectar, juices, and decaying matter for flight energy
The female mosquito requires a blood meal for development of her eggs. A mosquito can drink up to three times its weight in blood. It would take about 1.2 million bites to drain all the blood from your body.
Malaria mosquitoes are attracted to ripe Limburger cheese and smelly feet. The odor-protein given off by the cheese was found to be structurally similar to human sweat. Mosquitoes are also attracted by body heat and exhaled carbon dioxide.
Mosquito repellent doesn't repel mosquitoes; it blocks their sensors so that they don't know you are there.
The average life span of a female mosquito is 3 to 100 days. Males live for 10 to 20 days. A mosquito develops from egg to adulthood in 4 to 7 days.
Mosquitoes have been around for 100 million years. In that time they have diversified into 3,000 species that are very different from one another. There are over 170 described species of mosquitoes from North America.
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