"Freshwater mosquito larvae replace the ions lost with urine by actively absorbing Na+ and Cl- from the water with cells in their anal papillae."
Well there's a sentence I never thought I'd have to read. Thank you, Ecology textbook, for that wondrous bit of education.
On a related note, I seem to have a bug bite on my ankle. In January. Should I be worried?
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