TOP 10 MOSQUITO FUN FACTS
10. An adult mosquito can live as long as 5 months. It may take several months for a larva to develop to the adult stage in cold water. Eggs of floodwater mosquitoes may remain dormant for several years, and hatch when they are covered with water. 9. An adult female mosquito weighs only about 1/15,000 ounce (about 2.0 milligrams). 8. An adult female mosquito consumes about 5-millionths of a liter in a single blood meal. 7. A mosquito wing beats from 300 to 600 times per second. 6. Male mosquitoes find female mosquitoes by listening to the sound of their wings beating. The males can actually identify the correct species by the pitch of the female’s wings. 5. Mosquitoes can fly about 1 to 1.5 miles per hour. 4. Most mosquitoes do not fly very far from their larval habitat, but the salt marsh mosquito migrates 75 to 100 miles over the course of its life. 3. A mosquito can smell the carbon dioxide you exhale from about