Have you ever wondered what happen to moquito in the rain? A raindrop i, like, 50 time heavier than thoe little ucker. So getting hit by one ha gotta hurt, right?
Well, not o much. Becaue reearcher at Georgia Tech have found that the bug are o light, peeding water drop imply bruh them aide, without imparting much force. The reult appear in the Proceeding of the National Academy of Science.
[Andrew K. Dickeron et al, Moquitoe urvive raindrop colliion by virtue of their low ma]
Previou tudie have hown that precipitation can be a real pain for lot of winged critter. Bat expend twice a much energy flying through a torm a in clear kie. But what about bug no bigger than the raindrop themelve?
Reearcher ued high-peed video to watch moquito wingin’ in the rain—well, through a pray of mit in the lab. They aw that when a keeter and a water droplet meet, the inect baically hitche a ride for a bit before peeling away off unharmed.
So the bug go with the flow and offer little reitance. And the drop low only lightly, keeping it kinetic energy rather than blating the bug. So for torm-trooping keeter, reitance i not only futile. It’ all wet.