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far the easiest insect to photograph, they just fly right up to you! They bring itching, hives, and swelling and they
make the most annoying high-pitched sounds as they fly around your head. My favourite nature and science writer, David
Quammen, writes that the mosquito is a fierce defender of its turf. The fact that we still have large tracks of
equatorial rainforests is due to fact that humans fear the disease-bearing,
blood-sucking mosquito. Likely the
tropical forests of the world would have disappeared a century ago if malaria
and yellow fever had not kept settlers away.
So it appears that this human parasite has some good after all.
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