June 16, 2016.
How does the mosquito go about biting you and sucking your blood? Here is the answer in pictures.
Single female mosquito bites
Mosquito bites are one of the seasonal hazards when summer arrives. When you realize that a mosquito is biting you, it is often already too late and the damage is done. Your attention is then drawn to the button that this harmful insect leaves on your skin, the last trace of its passage. But have you ever wondered what happened before? That is, during the bite? This video will allow you to know everything about this question.. Sensitive souls refrain.
These images, filmed in very close up, will teach you that only the female mosquito bites humans. The latter indeed needs the proteins of our blood, which will then allow it to develop its eggs..
Hundreds of thousands of mosquito victims each year
To collect our blood, the female mosquito begins by applying saliva to the skin surface that she has chosen, thanks to these feeler organs which allow her to easily find the blood vessels. This anticoagulant substance will help thin the blood so that she can swallow it more easily.. Then, thanks to its proboscis, which in fact divides into six distinct membranes, two of which have “teeth”, it pierces the skin and begins to feed.
Mosquito bites would be quite harmless if the saliva they apply to our skin did not carry disease. When a mosquito drinks the blood of a person infected with a virus, it can indeed transmit this virus to other people that it will bite afterwards.. Hundreds of thousands of people die each year from malaria, dengue or even chikungunya, diseases they have contracted following a mosquito bite.
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