"Some fun facts you would wish to know"

Sunday, 9 August 2015

Did you know?

Only the female Aedes mosquitoes bite because they need the proteins in blood to develop their eggs.
An Aedes mosquito acquires the ability to infect seven days after biting a person carrying the virus. This period of time is the intrinsic incubation period in which the virus replicates in the mosquito's body.
Aedes mosquitoes prefer to stay near their breeding sites, typically travelling only a few hundred yards away.
Peak biting is at dawn and dusk.
Aedes aegypti is particularly fond of human ankles when searching for a biting spot on humans.
The eggs of Aedes mosquito can remain dormant in dry condition for up to about nine months and hatch only upon exposure to favorable conditions.
The average lifespan of an Aedes mosquito in nature is two weeks.

"The lifespan is only two weeks? That's quite short." Then here is one last fact...

An Aedes mosquito can lay eggs about three times in its lifetime, producing around 100 eggs each time.

Just imagine.

References:

http://www.dengue.gov.sg/subject.asp?id=12

http://www.mosquitomagnet.com/advice/mosquito-info/biting-insect-library/aedes-aegypti-mosquito/interesting-facts