As it turns out Mosquito Sucking Blood Urine

Blood-sucking insects bleak mosquitoes did have a strange behavior when sucking blood. As previously known by the experts, they pee first. And, unexpectedly, they also issued a pre-urine liquid form of blood!

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Such behavior makes the scientists puzzled. Claudio R Lazzari, entomologist from the University François Rabelais in Tours, France, as quoted by the New York Times, saying, "Blood is something very precious. Release at high risk. "

Lazzari recent study conducted and published in the journal Current Biology reveals that the pre-discharge urine aims to lower the body temperature at mealtime, which can reach 40 degrees Celsius.

To get the conclusion that, Lazzari studied mosquito species Anopheles stephensi. When eating, liquid urine and urine pre-mosquitoes were released through the anus. Sometimes, the fluid that will hang like dew dripping before the fall.

By Lazzari, while urine and urine pre-released, the liquid evaporates and cools the body temperature up to 3 degrees Celsius. This mechanism is one of the greatness of insects in the control of body temperature.

Mosquitoes are not the only insect that uses its own food to regulate body temperature. Bees, for example, throw a little nectar is eaten to keep the head cool while flying.

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