Why do mosquitoes drink the blood of humans? Scientists have given a surprising reason.

Do you know why mosquito suck your blood? How did they get into the habit of drinking blood? Scientists have found the answer. You will be surprised by the knowledge that scientists have given for this reason. Because in the beginning of the world mosquitoes were not used to drinking blood. It has slowly changed.

Mosquitoes started drinking the blood of humans and other animals because they lived in a dry state. Whenever the weather is dry and mosquitoes do not get water for their breeding, they start sucking the blood of humans or animals.

Some time ago scientists at Princeton University in New Jersey studied Africa's Aedes aegypti mosquitoes. This is the same mosquito due to which the Zika virus spreads. Dengue and yellow fever are also the cause. According to the report published in New Scientist, there are several species of Aedes aegypti mosquito in the mosquitoes of Africa. Mosquitoes of all species do not drink blood. They survive by eating and drinking many other things.

Noah Rose, a researcher at Princeton University, claimed in this report that no one has yet studied the food of different species of mosquitoes. We took Aedes aegypti mosquito eggs from 27 places in the Sub-Saharan region of Africa. Let mosquitoes come out of these eggs. Then humans, other creatures, like guinea pig were left in closed compartments in the lab to understand their blood drinking patterns. The food of mosquitoes of different species of Aedes aegypti mosquitoes turned out to be completely different.

Noah said that it proved to be completely wrong that all mosquitoes drink blood. It happened that the area where there is more drought or heat. Water is less. There mosquitoes need moisture for breeding. To meet the water shortage, mosquitoes start drinking the blood of humans and other organisms.

This change has come in several thousand years inside mosquitoes. The special thing about Aedes aegypti mosquitoes was that due to the growing cities, they started battling water scarcity. Then they started needing to drink human blood.

But where humans store water, there is no problem for Anopheles mosquitoes (malaria). They breed in places like coolers, pots and beds. But as soon as there is a shortage of water, they immediately attack humans or other organisms for drinking blood.