What Happens to Your Body When a Mosquito Bites You

• You can tell the difference between the two! Male mosquitos are a bit smaller than females. And if you see one nearby with fancy-looking feathered antennae, don’t rush to smack it just yet – it’s a male and it won’t bite you no matter what.

• A mosquito’s lifespan is only about a month or two. Well, that’s for the females. The guys live a lot shorter: around 2 weeks.

• You shouldn’t have any standing water near your house if you don’t want a mosquito invasion! - Contrary to popular belief, mosquitos don’t search for their prey looking for lights. To be fair, there aren’t many species that prefer human blood at all.

• They have a variety of methods, but they mostly use scent. More specifically, they’re sniffing for your body heat and the one thing every living breathing thing produces constantly: carbon dioxide, or CO2.

• Mosquitos can remember the scent of a particularly aggressive prey and avoid it completely for 24 hours. That means, if a mosquito tries to bite you and you decide to brush it off or swat at it, it’ll probably choose someone else to bite next! - They stick not 1 but 6 needles in you! Some of those have razor-sharp teeth that cut through the skin.

• The mosquito injects its saliva immediately after it bites you.

• Females need blood to develop eggs. More specifically, she needs loads of protein and iron, which blood happens to be rich in.

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