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Male mosquitoes can find female mosquitoes by
listening to the sound of their wings beating.
The male can actually identify the correct
species by the pitch of the females wings.
A mosquito can smell the carbon dioxide you
exhale (breathe out) from about 60-75 feet away.
Thats about the distance of 2 classrooms.
To study mosquitoes, Arctic researchers uncovered
their chests, arms and legs and reported as many
as 9000 mosquito bites per person, per minute.
Some people are more attractive to mosquitoes
than others. It is not clear why, but probably
has something to do with the 300 plus chemicals
made by the human skin.
An adult female mosquito drinks about
5-millionths of a liter in a single blood meal.
Most mosquitoes do not fly very far from their
larval habitat, but the salt marsh mosquito
migrates 75-100 miles over their life span.
Mosquitoes can fly about 1- 1½miles per hour.
Humans walk about 2-4 miles per hour.

• An adult female mosquito weighs only about 2
  milligrams. A paper clip weighs about 1000
  milligrams.

A mosquitos wing beats from 300-600 times per
second! Hummingbirds wings beat only 80 times
per second!
Eggs of floodwater mosquitoes may remain dormant
(stay eggs) for several YEARS and then hatch when
they are covered with water.