Mosquitoes belong to a group of insects that requires blood to develop fertile eggs. Males do not lay eggs, thus, male mosquitoes do not bite. The females are the egg producers and "host-seek" for a blood meal. Female mosquitoes lay multiple batches of eggs and require a blood meal for every batch they lay. Few people realize that mosquitoes rely on sugar as their main source of energy. Both male and female mosquitoes feed on plant nectar, fruit juices, and liquids that ooze from plants.

Mosquitoes, for instance, are attracted from up to 70 meters away by several factors including body odour, exhaled carbon dioxide and by radiated heat. The feeding urge is then triggered when the insects?? sensors come within range of the lactic acid on the skin. For 99% of customers, EG Repellent does work, and it has been scientifically tested and proven to work also. However, it will not work for some people due to certain body chemistry's and other overpowering smells such as perfume.

When a female mosquito pierces the skin with her mouthparts, she injects a small amount of saliva into the wound before drawing blood. The saliva makes penetration easier and prevents the blood from clotting in the narrow channel of her food canal. The welts that appear after the mosquito leaves is not a reaction to the wound but an allergic reaction to the saliva injected to prevent clotting. In most cases, the itching sensation and swellings subside within several hours.

The predominant daytime biting mosquito species around residential property is the Asian tiger mosquito. There are a number of mosquito species that breed in woodland flood pools or forest puddles that will bite during the daytime in the shade of forest or under open sky on overcast days. Most of these woodland pool species will only be a problem when the breeding habitat is in forest that is contiguous with the citizen’s residence.

No. Only the female mosquitoes bite. The females need a blood meal to produce eggs. Male mosquitoes feed on plant nectar and other plant liquids.

When the female mosquito pierces the skin for her “blood meal”, she injects a small amount of saliva into a capillary, the blood vessel closest to the skin. The saliva makes penetration of he proboscis (mouthparts) easier and prevents the blood from clotting. Welts or red bumps that may appear after the bite of the mosquito are actually an allergic reaction to the saliva. Some people are more allergic to mosquito saliva than others and tend to welt up more.

Giant African Land Snails do not have teeth. Instead, they have a rough tongue called a radula, which has special ridges on it so the snails rasp their food rather than chewing or biting it. You can feel a snail rasping you. It is slightly rough, tickly sensation, not unlike the feeling of a cat licking you. It can't do you any harm. Some species (possibly Achatina iredalei) have sharper radulas than others. Snails seem to rasp most surfaces they come across. This appears to see what is edible.

In Australia there are around 400 species but only approximately 10 are commonly abundant and represent a serious pest threat because of their nuisance biting or their ability to transmit disease. (BACK)

Sometimes (but only in the summer!). Some years there are almost none, and others there are many. The lodge site is windy enough to keep them down, and once on the glaciers they tend to become very few.