Sunday 28 June 2015

Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head: A Mosquito's Lament

image credit: Armin Rodler

Raindrops aren't mosquito friendly. If you're a mosquito darting about on a rainy day, those drops zinging down at you can be, first of all, as big as you are, and, more dangerously, they're denser.

A study says a mosquito being hit by a raindrop is roughly the equivalent of a human being whacked by a school bus. So rain should be dangerous to a mosquito. And yet, when it's raining those little pains in the neck are happily darting about in the air, and they don’t seem to care. Raindrops, for some reason, don’t bother them.

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