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| Nov5-05, 06:01 AM | #1 |
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How High Do Mosquitoese fly?
How high do mosquitoes fly? How high do flies fly? From the ground I mean.
I read a source that said mosquitoes tend to bite people less than 25 feet up. That was the American Mosquito Control Association or something like that. Flies the same? |
| Nov5-05, 09:49 AM | #2 |
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On purpose, yeah, but I heard once that every now and then a storm will inject some insects into the stratosphere.
Dunno about that 25 feet thing, though. |
| Nov5-05, 02:11 PM | #3 |
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Oh, about 20,000 feet...when one sneaks onto a plane.
![]() Okay, now where did my "more than you ever wanted to know about mosquitoes" link go? Oh, here it is: http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~insects/mosbiol.htm Shoot! I don't see anything about how high they fly. They don't seem to have any sort of mosquito myths page either. I don't know how high they can fly, but since mosquitoes tend to swarm around water and moist locations, it sounds fairly reasonable that most people are bitten while near the ground. |
| Nov5-05, 08:46 PM | #4 |
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How High Do Mosquitoese fly?
Perhaps like bees they only fly high to mate, otherwise I would go with moonbear on the idea that they stay low to ground based on the fact there is blood down there.
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| Nov5-05, 11:43 PM | #5 |
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| Nov6-05, 02:01 AM | #6 |
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I was thinking more about high rise buildings. I've heard something similar before about mosquitoes not flying above the 3rd floor of buildings, and am pretty sure it was myth, but don't have anything to support or refute it.
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| Nov6-05, 06:59 PM | #7 |
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I liked the bit about the mosquito sneaking onto a plane going up 20,000 feet
But more seriously, here is a quote from the AMCA site. "Mosquitoes that bite humans prefer to fly at heights of less than 25 ft. Asian Tiger Mosquitoes have been found breeding in treeholes over 40 feet above ground. In Singapore, they have been found in apartments 21 stories above ground. Mosquitoes have been found breeding up to 14,000 feet in the Himalayas and 2000 feet underground in mines in India." ref (The American Mosquito Control Association) |
| Nov11-05, 12:57 AM | #8 |
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| Nov11-05, 07:55 AM | #9 |
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| Nov14-05, 05:00 AM | #10 |
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| Jan20-06, 05:34 AM | #11 |
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Check out this link for a good argument on the subject.
http://www2.hawaii.edu/~sakae/canmosquitoesflyhigh.htm |
| Jan25-06, 05:20 PM | #12 |
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anopheles,the vector of malaria goes up to 500 m...no malaria case is seen over this height...i heard this during a lesson!
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| Jan25-06, 07:13 PM | #13 |
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yes, but just because they don't happen to be in high places it doesn't mean they can't get there. Observance and capability are two different things. I suggest you check out this to settle the argument. MOSQUITOES CAN FLY HIGH!
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| Jan26-06, 03:49 AM | #14 |
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Couldn't we just keep lowering the pressure in a contained space until all the mosquitoes can't fly? Then that would definitely be the upper limit.
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| Jan26-06, 04:00 AM | #15 |
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| Jan26-06, 04:36 AM | #16 |
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| Jan26-06, 04:56 AM | #17 |
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From Malakooti et al, U. of Health Sciences in Bethesda, Maryland:
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