2023-05-31 16:50:20
But why do mosquitoes bite us? It is a question of survival of the species, say the specialists. The females, because they are the culprits, can travel tens of kilometers to feed on your blood. “They need this blood meal to be able to bring their eggs to maturity and therefore to be able to lay them in stride. It is said that a female has this capacity to lay 800 to 1000 eggs in her lifetime”explains to TF1 Jean-Claude Mouret, operational coordinator at EID Méditerranée.
Once she has bitten you, the female mosquito will leave you with the memory of a blister and an itch. The legend, again, says that the more you scratch, the more it scratches. It’s true, but it’s not the only explanation. “When the female mosquito bites us, she will inject us with a local anesthetic and an anticoagulant which will allow her to go unnoticed. But when the body will detect this protein which it does not recognize, it will trigger an immune reaction which will provoke this itch”analyzes the entomologist Grégory l’Ambert.
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