It's summer on Shiraishi Island and the mosquitoes are out on their search and annoy missions. There are so many mosquitoes at night, it sounds like Leo Sayer is singing in my bedroom: "You make me feel like dancin' " they sing, "Gonna dance the night awa--" Pssssshhht. In a cloud of insecticide, they fall to their knees. (Yes, mosquitoes have knees. That's how they do push-ups.) Cannibals!
The other night, while I was reading in bed, a mosquito landed on my sleeve. I slapped my sleeve and SPLAT! Yuck -- someone else's blood.
I wonder if mosquitoes have DNA? Of course, insects don't have blood, they have guts. But mosquitoes do carry other people's blood so they must be carrying other people's DNA.
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