Why do mosquitoes bite in the dark room also?
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Only the female mosquito bites.
At night when the air is still, it can sense the heat and the carbon dioxide emanating from sleeping warm-blooded mammals.
It needs a blood meal in order to produce offspring.
During the day with air breezes and people walking and moving around it cannot track the mammals since they are in motion.
At night when most warm blooded creatures are still and sleeping, this makes an easy target to land and feed.
At night when the air is still, it can sense the heat and the carbon dioxide emanating from sleeping warm-blooded mammals.
It needs a blood meal in order to produce offspring.
During the day with air breezes and people walking and moving around it cannot track the mammals since they are in motion.
At night when most warm blooded creatures are still and sleeping, this makes an easy target to land and feed.
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Mosquitoes usually bite in dark because they avoid exposure to sunlight which makes them dehydrated and kill them.
EXPLANATION:
Mosquitoes do not need to see us to bite. They sense the heat which is released from our body and locate us even in dark room. They also locate us from the carbon dioxide which is released through respiration. In fact in day mosquitoes seek for shade. Mosquitoes require minimum of 50° F temperature to survive.
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