How much does a mosquito weigh?
2.5 mg0.0025 g
A mosquito weighs about 2.5 mg (0.0025 g).
Animals vary, so Tilt always names a specific, common adult: a worker bee, a house mouse, a Labrador, a bull rather than a calf. The label tells you which one. Source for this figure: Free flight of the mosquito Aedes aegypti (arXiv).
How heavy is that?
- It takes about 10 mosquitoes to balance a grain of rice.
- It takes about 400 mosquitoes to balance a paperclip.
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