Mosquitoes had to face each of us. And no one can say that it was a pleasant meeting. In the summer they annoy us both in the forest and in the city. Unwittingly asked how much they live, as they breed, and how long will have to endure them. We learn about the mosquitoes more, we study their "weak points" to know how to deal with them.
Where do mosquitoes live?
Mosquitoes are common on the whole globe. They are not withstanding only a hot desert and permafrost. Habitat mosquitoes - swampy places with standing water, raw basements in houses, sewer hatches.
Where are the mosquitoes breed?
The males mosquitoes are going to the swarms and call the buzz of females. Females make a squeak created by the help of wings. Pairing happens on the fly.
- Komarich lays eggs in a wet place, on plants stems or directly in water. They are 20-300 pieces.
- After 2-3 days, it is ready to postpone the next batch of eggs again.
- Eggs develop and turn into larvae, and then in dolls during different times, it all depends on the temperature of the water.
- The most favorable time for the development of eggs is the beginning of summer, when it is not very hot, then the whole process from eggs to an adult embossing Comaram takes place in 5 days.
In an unfavorable time (in winter), the eggs are pending in the fall in the reservoir, and in the spring, when the temperature is set to more than 16ᵒC heat, the process of turning from larvae in an adult mosquito is quickly passing.
How do mosquitoes multiply?
First from eggs are formed lichwood - Long worms with a developed head, chest and stomach consisting of segments. They are in the water. They have a mouth with brushes-teeth, and they are hardly eating plant residues and microorganisms in water. For breathing, the larvae is provided by the breather located at the end of the abdomen.
The greater the larva will eat during this period, the ending to the mosquito grow. It grows hard, changing the outer shell three times.
- Reaching the largest size, the larva turns into pupa With a big head passing into the chest, but without a mouth, but only with a breathing tube, and then into a narrow belly. The doll is very similar to the comma. The pupa does not feed on anyone, but he exhausts what was supposed earlier. Floats on the surface of the water.
- The next stage - the doll turns into adult mosquito. The female can immediately mate with the male, and bring offspring, but for this she needs our blood.
If you hope that in a wet basement, the mosquitoes will freeze in the winter and the next year they will not be, then we hope. It is in the street they breed only in the summer, and in the basement they will come true and in winter, because the conditions allow. Therefore, take measures to combat them.
How to deal with mosquitoes?
Comers have enemies. Adult mosquitoes, their larvae and eggs with pleasure eating birds, fish, lizards and snakes. Planning a harassment of nature, we take with you special lotions and creams from mosquitoes. A special means, there are also a mass of plants and products that scare mosquitoes:
- Vanillin. 20 g of vanilla powder dilute in 1 liter of water. The solution can be sprayed in the kitchen, and "kill two hares at once" - and the smell is pleasant, and the mosquitoes are afraid of him. Walking into the forest, you can cook cream with vanilla, adding vanillin powder to normal face cream (10 pieces of cream 1 part of vanillin).
- Valerian tincture. We divor into 20-25 ml of tincture in 1 liter of water, and then splashing on clothes.
- Citrus fruits with carnation. If you can cut the lemon or orange in the kitchen, and sticking carnation boutons in it - no mosquito will not be here.
- Also scares mosquitoes and midges essential oil: camphor, pine, eucalyptus, clove, anise.
- Being bloodsowing insects and such plants: geran, Rosemary, Mint, Melissa, Basil, Lavender.
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