Posts Tagged ‘DEET’

Why do mosquitos bite us? We might surmise many reasons, but actually it’s simply because female mosquitos need the protein in blood to develop eggs. A mosquito can drink up to 3 times its weight in blood, or 0.000264 ounces, or 0.0075 grams (a mosquito weighs about 0.000088 ounces / 0.0025 grams).  Both female and…