In certain area, children usually love to play under the raindrops. It cool and fun. But, have you ever think, what happen to those children if they were mosquitoes?
And here’s a puzzle. 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. Water is heavy, so a single raindrop might have 50 times your
mass, which means that if one hits you smack where it hurts (between
your wings) you should flatten like a pancake.
A study says a mosquito being hit by a raindrop is roughly the equivalent of a
human being whacked by a school bus, the typical bus being about 50
times the mass of a person. And worse, when it’s raining hard, each
mosquito should expect to get smacked, grazed, or shoved by a raindrop
every 25 seconds. So rain should be dangerous to a mosquito. And yet
(you probably haven’t looked, but trust me), when it’s raining those
little pains in the neck are happily darting about in the air, getting
banged—and they don’t seem to care. Raindrops, for some reason, don’t
bother them.
Why not? Why aren’t the mosquitoes getting smooshed?
So, how do they survive? Let's talk about this late.
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