An author of the study, David L. Hu, a mechanical engineer and biologist at the Georgia Institute of Technology said that most of the time, mosquitoes simply do not resist the impact of a water drop and instead “go with the flow,” as he put it.
“It’s kind of like boxing with a balloon,” he explained. “There’s no way to pop the balloon because it doesn’t resist you at all.”
About 25 percent of the time, raindrops fall directly between a mosquito’s wings. In these cases, the mosquito is absorbed into the falling water drop, but it pulls away just before the drop hits the ground.
Although this article isn't serious at all when I saw it I had to take advantage of this activity to find out the answer to a question that has peaked my curiosity for years. I never knew that a mosquito could be so durable aganist rain or could do such amazing acrobatics to prevent themselves from hitting the ground when it rains. Although this article isn't educational it did answer an interesting question that I didn't know and I would wager many others didn't know as well.
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