Are mosquitos really clever enough to find a small hole in a mosquito net?

Question

Are mosquitos really clever enough to find a small hole in a large mosquito net? Or do they just blindly try everywhere until they find a hole? Or are they guided to the hole by scent? In other words, will a mosquito automatically find a hole if it exists or will they try for a while and then give up and fly away?

Answer 1

if I'm under the net and theres a hole theyll find it

Answer 2

of coarse!!

Answer 3

They really have nothing else they'd rather be doing, and no other time commitments.

Answer 4

Mosquitoes have almost no brains, but they are persistent.  They find the holes by random chance.  That is why once they get in and have tasty nibble of you they do not get out.  If they had any brain at all they would flee to safety through the same hole.  They don't.  SO you get the satisfaction of killing the plump little b*****d.

If the whole is big enough it may have a stronger scent coming out and so lead them in.  Patch it.

It also helps to spray the netting with repellent and not yourself.

Answer 5

if you sleep too close to the net that your skin is touching it they bite you through the net it happened a lot when i went to Ghana.

Answer 6

Swarms of them keep trying until they find any hole the netting has. They still fly around it if it has no holes.

Answer 7

Clever? No. They just are really stubborn, so they'll keep trying until they can find a way through.