Mosquitos Show Even Less Regard For Basic Decorum Than We Thought
“Roughly one to two minutes after she starts feeding, an Anopheles stephensi mosquito will excrete urine and preurine through the anus, at the end of the abdomen. Sometimes a drop of the fluid will form and cling to the body before falling off; when this happens, some fluid evaporates like sweat and cools the mosquito’s abdomen by almost four degrees.”
— Great. As if mosquitos could get any more disgusting and insulting and life-ruining than they already are: While they’re drinking our blood, they’re also pooping and peeing. I have a suspicion, based on personal experience and a fondness for dumb puns, that this phenomenon is especially prevalent among the particularly horrible mosquitos who feed on the humans who have for some reason chosen to live in or near the area of Brooklyn known as Gowanus.