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Mosquito

Mosquito
Female mosquitoes bite humans because they need proteins found in blood to lay their eggs. These are male mosquitoes and, without a proboscis, are not able to bite me; they feeds on flower nectar.
Posted on June 29, 2017 By Michael Griffiths
Mosquito
Mosquito
Female mosquitoes bite humans because they need proteins found in blood to lay their eggs. These are male mosquitoes and, without a proboscis, are not able to bite me; they feeds on flower nectar.
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I’m a vegetarian and my wife eats meat now and then. Convergent evolution?!
A female mosquito can live for 8 weeks, or 6 months if she hibernates. The male mosquito lives around 10 days. The female has evolved to take advantage of a readily available and nutritious food source to fuel her egg laying – she lays eggs at 3 day intervals. Her proboscis is essential to the success of her egg laying. So convergent evolution has worked very well for her.