Jason E. Andersen

Bonus Fun Fact: Mosquitos are the most dangerous animal to humans. They are responsible for somewhere around 750,000 deaths worldwide each year. Of course, it’s not the mosquito itself that kills the humans, it’s the diseases they carry that are the problem. About half of those annual deaths are due to Malaria, with mosquitos being carriers for a host of other diseases, including West Nile Virus and Zika Virus. 

Bonus Bonus Fun Fact: An effective method for warding off mosquitos is to have a fan blowing on you. Mosquitos have a hard time landing in high winds, even those artificially created by a fan. This might come in handy as temperatures go down and we start to spend evenings on our patios. Just make sure the fan blows on your whole person, otherwise you might have mosquitos flocking to your ankles or other outlying parts.

Bonus Bonus Bonus Fun Fact: Mosquitos are highly attracted to carbon dioxide. When you sit on your patio, breathing away like living things do, you create a cloud of carbon dioxide gas around you. This is like a beacon that mosquitos pick up on when they’re on the search for tasty people juices. Fans are effective mosquito deterrents, not only because they create wind that the mosquito can’t land in, but they disperse the carbon dioxide that attracts the mosquitos in the first place.