Guess what happens to action loungers? While they are busy lounging, some pesky, disease-carrying vector comes and sucks their blood. Interestingly, the female mosquito has to seek a "blood meal" before she can produce eggs. She finds her prey using 72 different odor receptors on her antennae, looking for a good combination of carbon dioxide, 1-octene-3-ol, and other compounds that compose body odor. Today is Thursday, October 13, 2011, and Ray could have just indirectly infected a kid in Africa with malaria. Go Raymond!
13 October 2011
Ray scratches his mosquito bites.
Guess what happens to action loungers? While they are busy lounging, some pesky, disease-carrying vector comes and sucks their blood. Interestingly, the female mosquito has to seek a "blood meal" before she can produce eggs. She finds her prey using 72 different odor receptors on her antennae, looking for a good combination of carbon dioxide, 1-octene-3-ol, and other compounds that compose body odor. Today is Thursday, October 13, 2011, and Ray could have just indirectly infected a kid in Africa with malaria. Go Raymond!
