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Saturday, November 27, 2010
Why does a mosquito bite hurt so much?
A Mosquito has forty-seven teeth. It stabs the skin with its sharp snout and saws in with four knife tools surrounded by the 47 teeth to draw the blood.
How large are these teeth relative to their body size? Isn't it only the female mosquito that bites?
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