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How Do Mosquitoes Survive Rainstorms?

Posted on the 07 June 2013 by Gerard @presurfer
How Do Mosquitoes Survive Rainstorms?image credit: Edal Anton Lefterov cc
Imagine you're walking through a park and suddenly thousands of Volkswagen Beetles start falling from the sky. They are falling at a speed that is five times as fast as you can run, so dodging them is not an option. Game over for you, right?
Not if you're a mosquito. Sure, a raindrop is to the pesky insect what a Volkswagen would be to us, but mosquitoes have some natural advantages in this scenario that humans don't. Mosquitoes survive rainstorms all the time. How?

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