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How to Learn Anything Better and Faster & The Mosquito: Humans' Worst Enemy

Something You Should Know

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Is the Mosquito a Function?

The female needs blood from humans or other animals, to help grow and mature her eggs. When she bites, she immediately starts excreting the water from our blood in order to lessen the weight of her bite. So it's actually quite an amazing a feeding systemin and ritual. Does the mosquito have a purpose, a function? Would the world be fine without them? Or are they here for a reason other than to just be mosquitoes and do what mosquitoes do?

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