"Why Did God Create Mosquitoes?" is a story about the sad cat who despises the pesky mosquitoes for making her friend sick and go to heaven. With the help of the smart mouse and other "annoying creatures," she realizes the value of God's creation—big and small. Children, moms, and dads, enjoy reading!
"Egypt is a very pretty heifer. From the north a mosquito itself will certainly come against her." (Jeremiah 46:20) This quote is from the New World Translation.
While they can seem pointless and purely irritating to us humans, mosquitoes do play a substantial role in the ecosystem. Mosquitoes form an important source of biomass in the food chain—serving as food for fish as larvae and for birds, bats and frogs as adult flies—and some species are important pollinators.
As many as five of the ten plagues in the Bible are directly or indirectly attributed to insects such as flies (Fig. 1), lice, murrain, locusts, boils, and possibly darkness (Berenbaum 1995).
These ancient insects are believed to have been up to three times bigger than the kind that we deal with today. Scientific studies show that mosquitoes are a part of the same family as the house fly. About 200 million years ago, the mosquito started its evolution to become the blood-sucking insect that we know today.
Many mosquitoes – harmless and otherwise – serve an important biological purpose. They can help pollinate plants as they feed on nectar (their usual food source, outside of that crucial blood meal period) and provide a vital source of food for larger animals.
Frogs, dragonflies, ants, spiders, geckos and bats, and some other animals, also eat mosquitoes. If all mosquitoes disappeared, many animals would have a lot less food. Imagine if all the rice in the world disappeared. Nobody eats only rice, but if rice disappeared tomorrow, a lot of people would have a lot less food.
The idea of the Hebrew here is that out of all the animals, the serpent alone was selected to be cursed.
The Leviathan is often an embodiment of chaos and threatening to eat the damned after their life. In the end, it is annihilated. Christian theologians identified Leviathan with the demon of the deadly sin envy.
"`All flying insects that walk on all fours are to be detestable to you. There are, however, some winged creatures that walk on all fours that you may eat: those that have jointed legs for hopping on the ground. Of these you may eat any kind of locust, katydid, cricket or grasshopper.
There are more than 3500 species of mosquitoes worldwide. More than 300 of these species are found in Australia. There are almost 100 species of mosquitoes in Western Australia.
This produces nutrients that are important for the plants. Without mosquitoes, plant growth could be affected. Wiping out mosquitoes would also wipe out a group of pollinators. Only some species feed on the blood of humans and animals, and even in those species, the females are the only ones sucking blood.
Mosquitoes are turned off by several natural scents: cinnamon, peppermint, cedar, citronella, lemongrass, patchouli, catnip, lavender, and more.
Insects and their Habitations: A Book for Children, published by the Society for the Promotion of Christian Knowledge in 1833, instructed children that it was a sin against God to unnecessarily harm insects and that if they should encounter one in distress, they should not harm them, but provide them aid.
Mosquito symbolizes survival, persistence, and perception. The insect has specific meanings when it enters your dreamscape, and deep symbolism and meaning when it appears as a Spirit, Totem, and Power Animal.
Mosquitoes are attracted to the carbon dioxide humans and other animals emit. They also use their receptors and vision to pick up on other cues like body heat, perspiration and skin odor to find a potential host.
The Nile crocodile, found in sub-Saharan Africa, is the most aggressive animal in the world.
Just before he breathed his last breath, Jesus uttered the phrase “it is finished.” Jesus knew that his mission was now finished, and to fulfill Scripture he said, “I am thirsty.” A jar of sour wine was sitting there, so they soaked a sponge in it, put it on a hyssop branch, and held it up to his lips.
You may eat any animal that has a split hoof divided in two and that chews the cud. However, of those that chew the cud or that have a split hoof completely divided you may not eat the camel, the rabbit or the coney.
The only dietary restrictions specified for Christians in the New Testament are to "abstain from food sacrificed to idols, from blood, from meat of strangled animals" (Acts 15:29), teachings that the early Church Fathers, such as Clement of Alexandria and Origen, preached for believers to follow.
Prohibited foods that may not be consumed in any form include all animals—and the products of animals—that do not chew the cud and do not have cloven hoofs (e.g., pigs and horses); fish without fins and scales; the blood of any animal; shellfish (e.g., clams, oysters, shrimp, crabs) and all other living creatures that ...
The most effective composters are the blowflies, flesh flies, bush flies and soldier flies. Think of it this way: if we lived in a world without flies, our streets and parks would be full of dead animals, rotting leaves and logs and nasty surprises left by dogs.
When a mosquito bites you, it pierces the skin using a special mouthpart (proboscis) to suck up blood. As the mosquito is feeding, it injects saliva into your skin. Your body reacts to the saliva resulting in a bump and itching.
Only female mosquitoes bite people and animals to get a blood meal. Female mosquitoes need a blood meal to produce eggs.