Contrary to popular perception among humans, not all mosquitoes bite
just in order to procure blood to sustain themselves. In an average lifetime of
about 3 days, a mosquito hardly needs 7-8 drops of blood to keep itself alive.
Ten tops.
Not unlike humans, a mosquito is a very moody and emotional
creature. Apart from the obvious need for nutrition and feeding the young ones,
it may even bite you simply out of boredom. Then, there are special mosquito
units in each major mosquito empire that are involved in continuously
replenishing a stockpile of human blood as well as blood from some other
organisms to be used in times of crisis.
Interestingly, mosquitoes prefer human blood to that of other
organisms, owing to the relative hygiene and superior living conditions of
humans. One may find sufficient amounts of a variety of flavors of human blood
in all upper class mosquito households.
Then, there are the law enforcement mosquitoes that carry out
sentences against humans involved in large-scale massacres of mosquitoes.
There are what you may call “adrenaline junkies” that mess with
humans just to derive a sense of adventure in their lives.
There are petty criminal warlords who carry a vicious vendetta
against humans for one reason or the other; and bite them with lethal
bio-weaponry, thus inflicting their own massacres on the humans, which
obviously led to further retaliation by humans.
It was not always like this though. For a brief period of history
there was a grand revolution in the whole mosquito world. The mosquito that led
the movement came into the picture when the mosquito governments and non-state
actors both organized and encouraged mindless attacks on humans and other
organisms. In such times of great turmoil, came from the huge city-state of
Mosquit, Ganphi, a mosquito that challenged the very core of the mosquito
society.
He lived a very simple life. He disapproved of all kinds of
violence, even if they meant biting someone to satisfy hunger. He spent his
entire life of 54 hours on nothing but fruit juices and mould; inspiring a
whole generation of non-biters among mosquitoes.
A lawyer by profession, he gave up a glittering career in order to
fight for the rights of the lowest strata in the mosquito society-the aphids,
that after being stolen from the ant farms were used as labor for various
chores and forced to live a moribund life. The government under the King
Pintoinitially resisted and tried to shut off any dissent, but by then, Ganphi
had caught the imagination of the nation’s youth and the huge aphid populations
who rallied behind him and forced the government to bend to their will in a
non-violent movement.
Having gained the support and trust of an entire generation of
mosquitoes, Ganphi started taking up other causes as well. He implored upon the
mosquito society to understand and value the life of others, that they should
bite only as much as they need, that they should recognize the right to life
with dignity for all organisms. He severely criticized the preferential biting
of humans just because of their hygiene.
He fought for equal rights for the male mosquitoes who had been
reduced to ceremonial show-pieces.
His radical ideas and their support also led to the creation of
extremist factions within the mosquito society. These were the ones who
believed mosquitoes to be the most superior race off all and disapproved of
Ganphi’s thinking.And it was one such disillusioned extremist that killed the
Mosqatma. The mosquito who abhorred violence all his life, who didn’t bite a
single living soul, was brutally killed in a mindless act of rage.
Today, when the mosquito world is yet again embroiled in turmoil,
it awaits the arrival of another Ganphi.
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