valiant moms

人为财死，鸟为食亡。

"People die for money, birds for food."

Now that I am back in Malaysia and that it's raining 4 days a week, mosquitoes are rampant.
They bite and they make me itch; they hum beside my ears and irritate me.
However, I still try my best not to kill them, particularly if they aren't black with white stripes.
The black with white stripes ones may be Aedes and can transmit Dengue virus--they are much more deadly.

Every morning, below my windows equipped with insect netting, a sprinkle of dead mosquitoes decorate my desk.
I wasn't the murderer.
These mosquitoes spent the whole night banging against the insect netting, trying in vain to find a way out.
From the picture, you can see that they were females.
Why do I say they were females?
--their antenna were thin. Male mosquitoes typically have plume-like (featherduster-like) antenna to facilitate their detection of female wingbeats. Yeap, males got to seek out the females in this insect, as is the case with most other animals.   (not in my case however.  j/k)
Because they were females, I believe that these ladies spent the night trying to squeeze through the netting for one reason. They wished to find a source of clear, still water to lay their eggs.
This is also meant that they had already acquired their blood meal from....me, most likely =).

Poor them.
Having survived the perils of sucking blood from humans,
heartless humans stingy of that teenie-weenie bit of blood,
'em mothers are beaten by a thin sheet of plastic
that doom them to early deaths as failures
whilst showing them the watery paradise that lies beyond.