From Discover Magazine: How Mosquitoes Survive 
in a Downpour

mosquitoDavid Hu was sitting on the porch with his infant son when a large mosquito bite appeared on the baby’s forehead. It was pouring out, and Hu began wondering how the insect survived the impact of the drops. “A mosquito weighs only a couple milligrams, and the drops are up to 50 times heavier,” he says. “It’s like a person being hit by a bus”…

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from Discover Magazine

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