Abstract
One indication of the depth of human animosity toward mosquitoes is the existence ofthe WorldChampionship ofMosquitoKillingin Pelkosenniemi, Finland. Basically, this is a open to all comers, who are challenged to kill as many mosquitoes as possible with their bare hands within a five-minute period in an area of 100300 square meters (or 1,076-3,229 sq. ft.) (http://www.dailyfactoid.com/archive_question.php?id=40yconsumption oflarge quantities of LapinKulta,Karhu,and other Finnish beers in association with the festivalprobably doesn't contribute much to deadly accuracy. The Mosquito KillingChampionship (an invention of local businessman KaiKullervo Salmijarvi in 1993) doesn't specify how the mosquitoes are to be killed-just that they must meet their fate free of insecticides and mechanical devices-but the likely method of choice is the basic, time-honored swat. Pellonpaa's record was challenged at Italy's first officialmosquito swatting competition in August 2000, during which contestants have 15 minutes to kill as many mosquitoes as they can. The winner of the golden mosquito was Christian Rizatto,who dispatched 23 mosquitoes in 15 minutes (http://www. thenakedsci entists.comjHTMLj contentj newsjnewsj1205f).
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