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This is Scientific Americans 60 Second Science.

I'm Karen Hopkins.

Sucking blood is risky business, at least for the female mosquitoes that need

those nutrients to nurture their developing eggs. Not only did these bugs have to find a suitable blood donor, but once they've had their fill, they have to be able to escape undetected to avoid the big swat.

How they finesse this stealthy departure has just been revealed in the Journal of Experimental Biology.

Feasting on an unsuspecting mammal can double a mosquito's body mass.

So how does a fully loaded female heave that added bulk off the skin of her host without triggering

its pressure sensors and bringing on that fateful slap?

To find out, Florian Mares, the Vaginian University in the Netherlands and his colleagues, used cameras that

record 13,500 frames per second to capture the takeoff maneuvers of 63 blood-fed

malarial mosquitoes.

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