Summer weather is here and many of us will participate in outdoor activities. What you might not realize is that body heat and the carbon dioxide, which we exhale, attracts insects such as mosquitoes.
Mosquito surveillance – the capture and testing of mosquitoes for disease — is conducted between the months of May and August. Mosquitoes favorite time to breed is dusk and dawn. Mosquitoes can smell the CO2 we exhale from a distance of 100 feet away. Male mosquitoes only feed off of flower nectars and juices; but female mosquitoes feed on blood. Blood gives female mosquitoes nutrients to develop eggs.
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