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.