Mosquitoes are one of the most common insects on Earth. If the mosquito managed to fly into the apartment, then the owner can expect a few minutes of unpleasant hunting. From here an interesting question may arise: what floor can a mosquito get to? Perhaps it makes sense to buy a penthouse in a skyscraper so that this pest does not get there.
Mosquito life cycle
When the female is ready, she attracts the male. Before that, she eats up, finding a warm-blooded creature. From food, she extracts the necessary substances used for the production of eggs.
Interesting fact: if females prefer a predatory way of food, then males eat exclusively nectar from flowers.
Females can lay from 150 to 280 eggs at a time. They do this on the surface of the water or in moist ground. Eggs float in liquid, after which larvae hatch from them. They breathe with the help of sinuses located on the stomach and feed on small microorganisms. Having absorbed enough food, they create a chrysalis around themselves. Inside the shell, the insect turns into a mosquito. His paws grow, wings form.
When the ripening process ends, the insect breaks through the cocoon and crawls out. For some time, the newborn mosquito waits for the wings to dry before flying, then rises into the air and goes in search of food.
Depending on weather conditions, females are able to live from 40 to 120 days, males live half as much.With the onset of cold weather, the creature can fall into suspended animation and wait in this state of the onset of the warm season.
What floor can a mosquito get to?
Scientists conducted research, during which they tried to establish the maximum flight height of these insects. It was experimentally found that in ideal conditions, when there is no wind, the mosquito can fly 15 meters, after which it needs to rest. From this we can conclude that breaking away from the earth, the mosquito can reach about the sixth floor if the ceiling height is 2.5 meters.
If the flight is carried out in imperfect conditions, then its distance depends on the direction and strength of the wind. He can catch a mosquito and “throw up” the air flow. So the insect can be on any floor.
Interesting fact: Once a mosquito was found on the 54th floor of a building. This is currently a record high.
To enter a certain floor, a mosquito does not have to fly through a window. The insect travels beautifully through ventilation shafts, flights of stairs and in elevators. This allows him to get to any places in the building.
Mosquito flying in the rain
In Japan, scientists conducted an experiment in which they observed the flight of an insect in artificial rain. Mosquitoes were placed in a small transparent box, where the droplets were imitated. The approximate weight of the latter was 8 mg, despite the fact that the mass of the insect is only 2 mg. It is easy to guess that their meeting for a mosquito will not end in any good.
If an insect sits on the surface, and a drop falls on top of it, then it can go to the other world. In the case of liquid getting on the mosquito while it is in flight, the trajectory of movement changes dramatically. It starts to drift to the side, the height decreases sharply. A drop flows down the body, its parts remain on its paws and serve as an additional load. In this state, an insect can, at best, rise one meter.
The maximum flight height of the mosquito is approximately 15 meters, after which he needs to rest. Therefore, taking off the ground, in the absence of wind, he can reach the sixth floor. If the insect managed to fly inside the building, then gradually it is able to get to any floor, resting on flights of stairs or in the ventilation. In rainy weather, mosquitoes can only fly up a meter, because constantly struggling with drops falling on them.
