Mosquitoes are insects who the stings can deliver to the person many unpleasant minutes. But human blood is not for them the main food.
Mosquito ordinary – an insect bloodsucker who most often meets in valleys of the rivers or on boggy lowlands, in a wood zone. Average life expectancy depends generally on air temperature – it makes about 1.5-4 months. At males the life expectancy is much less, than at females.
What mosquitoes eat
For maintenance of life the forest mosquitoes eat sacchariferous liquids, juice of plants. To provide development of posterity, females need also blood – human or any warm-blooded animals. This blood partially too is used as food. To get access to blood vessels necessary for it, the female pierces skin with thin bristles which hide in a proboscis, and exhausts blood. At the same time its saliva because of what blood clotting is broken – slightly, of course, only gets to a puncture on skin in order that the komarikha could drink amount of blood necessary to it. But together with this saliva, different unpleasant infections which cause hypostasis and an itch, and sometimes and allergic reaction can be transmitted. At a mosquito male such bristles are very gentle – it is not able to pierce skin with them therefore can eat only flower nectar. But thus only adult individuals eat. As well as other dipterous insects, mosquitoes pass four phases in the development: this egg, larva, doll, imago. For once of a female can lay about three hundred eggs in still water of different reservoirs. Soon from them larvae hatch. They usually swim headfirst at a surface of reservoirs, eating the smallest organisms and different organic particles, there is no transformation into a doll yet. When development of a mosquito in a doll comes to an end, in a cocoon there is a small crack, and the adult individual creeps out of it.
Why nobody loves mosquitoes
The ordinary mosquito, as well as other blood-sicking insects, is capable to bring upon people a lot of trouble. Stings of mosquitoes not only are quite painful, but can cause infection with infectious diseases also. There are also such areas where mosquitoes are found in such set that are capable to interfere with a cattle pasture and also complicate work to people who work in the field, in a garden, in a kitchen garden. To find the victim, the komarikha is guided first of all by a smell – she is capable to catch carbon dioxide which the victim emits at breath. At allocated from then lactic acid a smell it is possible to guess for several kilometers therefore the sweaty person attracts more insects.