Twisting, diving, taunting; a flurry of wing, leg and potential disease. The mosquitoes in Africa are very different from those in Canada. They supersede their North American counterparts in speed and agility, therefore making themselves more deadly – never mind the Malaria factor. When you do chase one down as it lazily flies away, you realize all too late why it drifts so. The red stripe on net or pillowcase tells the gruesome, yet victorious, story of gluttony punished. Lesson learnt: Best to stay under the mosquito net.
(The humor here is that, just after I wrote the above blog entry, one such mosquito somehow managed to sneak inside the net that surrounds my bed. Two bites and five attempts later, it met its bloody death. New lesson: Beware! African mosquitoes are as smart as they are quick.)
No comments:
Post a Comment