Monday, January 18, 2016

Mosquitoes and Raindrops Are Enemy?



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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