1) YOU CANNOT CONTRACT HIV FROM A MOSQUITO BITE
this is because the virus cannot survive or multiply in the ‘squitos body. Another interesting fact is that when the mosquito deposits saliva onto your skin (people get red, itching bumps due to a reaction to the saliva) it is separate from where it sucks your blood, meaning it’s past meals (blood) don’t get regurgitated into you *barf*
2) ONLY FEMALE MOSQUITOES BITE
If you haven’t noticed in the animal kingdom, if a female species isn’t the type to bleed then she’s the type to ingest blood, and the latter is true for mosquitoes. Females need the protein, specifically isoleucine, that is found in blood to make eggs.
*PLEASE NOTE THE CONDOM ON HER PROBOSCIS*
3) MOSQUITOES CAN SMELL HUMAN BREATH
That’s right, they have the ability to detect CO2 which for those of you who don’t know, that is what gets emitted when you breath out. This is why when we die people say we will rest in peace because we no longer have to worry about mosquito bites. Female mosquitoes have nerve cells knows as cPA neurons which have a receptor that detects the carbon dioxide. (PS the thing about RIP I made up but everything else is true)
Sources:
1) http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~insects/aids.htm
kermit meme: http://www.memes.com/img/442631
2) http://www.pa.msu.edu/sciencet/ask_st/061197.html
mosquito meme: http://www.quickmeme.com/Misunderstood-Mosquito
3) http://www.nih.gov/researchmatters/december2013/12162013mosquitoes.htm
Liam Neeson meme: http://becuo.com/liam-neeson-i-will-find-you
4) http://www.megacatch.com/mosquitofacts.html
5) http://www.nih.gov/researchmatters/december2013/12162013mosquitoes.htm
meme: http://global3.memecdn.com/Monster-mosquito_o_11195.jpg