A mosquito's weakness

We are going to move this weekend from our very humble studio flat into a much smarter 3 bed affair on the other side of town. Probably one of the most irritating things about living in the studio, is our little buzzing friends that arrive most evenings to terrorise us. Mosquitoes have a canny ability to just appear in our room (we have stuffed obvious cracks with little plastic bags) soon after it gets dark outside, but the most important thing is, they are smart. Yes, a mosquito can hide itself, waiting and waiting until the lights go out and just as you are about to nod off, the buzzing noise starts around your ear, as it senses for a place to land and get sucking.

There are two responses at this point, either hide under the cover and try to ignore them and go to sleep, or jump up, turn the light on and see if you can spot the little bastard.

It is not easy, I assure you, to see them when you are half a sleep and under the grey white light of a fluorescent bulb!

But, mosquitoes have a weakness, that is having out smarted you and managed to suck your blood, they get lazy. Surfeit on blood they seem to lose their previously mentioned ability to hide and just sit on the wall, apparently intoxicated, and an easy target for a quick whack with a heavy magazine. Blood spatters on our nice clean white walls, lay testament to the fact that mother nature has given the humble mosquito a design flaw.

Anyway, we have found a nice clean place to live now, and we are looking forward to leaving this room with its squashed mosquito carcasses decorating the walls. Life will hopefully take on a semblance of normality once we move, but I think we still have a way to go yet before it feels completely comfortable for us.