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Friday, May 14, 2010

The Life of a Mosquito.


Being a Mosquito isn't as boring as it seems, although it's not that exciting either, it really depends how you look at it! A mosquito is a common insect in the family Culicidae. Mosquitoes have four stages in their life cycle: egg, larva, pupa and adult or imago. Female mosquitoes lay their eggs in water, such as a salt-march, lake, puddle, or an artificial water container. The first three stages in a mosquito’s life happen in the water and last five to fourteen days, the eggs hatch to become larvae then pupae. The adult mosquito emerges from the pupa as it floats at the water surface. Adults live for 4-8 weeks. There are approximately 3,500 species of mosquitoes found throughout the world. In most species, only the females feed on humans and are therefore vectors for a number of infectious diseases affecting millions of people. So after all this information that I just filled your head with, you can decide yourself whether you think a mosquito is useful or useless, personally I think being a mosquito would be super boring, and they are very useless, they serve no purpose to anyone.

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