What do male mosquitoes eat? Ant Farm

Male mosquitoes do not suck blood, but only plant juice and nectar. Female mosquitoes must feed on human or animal blood ovaries in order to develop and lay eggs, and at the same time acquire pathogens in the process of blood sucking and become a transmission medium.

Female mosquitoes suck blood mainly for reproductive needs. After mating, female mosquitoes need to use nutrients such as protein in human and animal blood to provide energy and promote ovarian development, so as to successfully produce fertilized eggs and reproduce the next generation. In summer, mosquitoes suck blood, but they actually drink sugary substances in their blood.

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Harm of mosquitoes

Among mosquitoes, the most hateful is the mosquito that sucks human blood. Male and female mosquitoes have different feeding habits. Male mosquitoes are "vegetarians" who specialize in feeding on nectar from plants and juice from fruits, stems and leaves. Female mosquitoes occasionally taste the juice of plants, but once they get married, they will feed on blood. Because it can only develop ovaries after sucking blood. So only female mosquitoes bite and suck blood.

There are many spiral sensory hairs on a pair of antennae and three pairs of feet of mosquitoes, and each sensory hair is densely arranged with round or oval pores. In the dark, mosquitoes can sense the carbon dioxide emitted by the human body in the air through this sensor, respond within 1‰ second, and fly to the blood-sucking object correctly and in time.

Before sucking blood, mosquitoes inject saliva containing anticoagulant under the skin and mix it with blood, so that the blood becomes thin plasma that will not coagulate, and then spit out undigested old blood and suck out fresh blood. If a person bites 654.38+100000 mosquitoes at the same time, he can absorb human blood.