Showing posts with label mosquito. Show all posts
Showing posts with label mosquito. Show all posts

Thursday, 2 October 2014

Spiral Notebook: No sleep until splat time

SN_mossie.jpg"Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution." So wrote Theodosius Dobzhansky in 1973, simplifying all there is to understand about the ambition of nature.

And yet... the mosquito.What need is there for a creature who's role is purely nuisance - big brothers have filled that evolutionary niche.