There are more than three thousand species of mosquitoes, which appear more often with the arrival of the summer months and make our lives miserable with both their sounds and their bites. They also cause nearly two million deaths worldwide each year as they play a role as carriers of diseases such as malaria and West Nile virus. It may come as a surprise to you, but it really is. The reason they are dangerous is that they are “minnak”.

what about mosquitoes how dangerous they would be if they were human-sized, Could they survive that format? Let’s find answers to these questions.

Contrary to popular belief, mosquitoes do not feed on blood. They feed on sugars and water in nectars. Then why do they bite us and suck our blood?

Because female mosquitoes to be able to lay eggs and continue their generation. it only needs proteins and lipids found in animal blood. That’s why only female mosquitoes bite us.

A standard mosquito weighs 2.5 mg, but needs about 1 mg of blood to produce 40 eggs. In their lifespan, which lasts an average of two to six weeks, They can lay up to three hundred eggs.

But what if mosquitoes were the size of humans?

If a female mosquito was about the size of a human, weighed about 79 kg and required three times her body weight in blood during her lifetime, she would produce 300 eggs. It would take 237 liters of blood.

Assuming there is an average of 5 liters of blood in the human body, the average for a mosquito to lay an egg is He should have sucked the blood of 47 people to the last drop.

After a while, the human population would begin to dwindle and it would be difficult for female mosquitoes to find blood.

Maybe because the mosquitoes get gigantic. they may be a new kind of prey. On the other hand, eating mosquito eggs and larvae from animals such as birds, bats, and spiders can reduce the mosquito population.

Also mosquitoes on a human scale by killing cattle would cause chaos in the meat industry and in nature.

But could a 79 kg humanoid mosquito survive in our atmosphere?

probably not. Arthropods breathe through openings called “spiracles” that connect to a branching trachea. This ensures the distribution of oxygen in their body. Because of this system, the amount of oxygen in the atmosphere also limits their growth.

During the carbon age, the amount of oxygen on Earth was almost 35%. For this reason, arthropods were gigantic at that time, but today the amount of oxygen in the atmosphere is 21%.

This rate not enough for a human-sized mosquito. Even if it were enough, mosquitoes would have to evolve a stronger exoskeleton system to support this weight. Probably also because they need more nectar to survive. they would starve.

Besides, if mosquitoes were human-sized, some of the birds, bats, and spiders that feed on them would get bigger too.

We may not be seeing human-sized mosquitoes lately, but we may be seeing an increase in giant flies called “Gallinippers.”

These mosquitoes are different from other flies 20 times they are larger and found only in North America. This fly species is also so large that they can even bite you through your clothing.

At the same time, “Gallinippers” go with rising world temperatures, because mosquitoes are cold-blooded and need temperatures above 26 degrees Celsius. They can easily increase their range and population.