As It Happens6:28Why do these mosquitos keep perching on the nostrils of frogs who want to eat them?
John Gould had been snapping pictures of mosquitoes on frogs for years before he noticed a trend — the bloodsuckers always seem to land right on the amphibians’ noses.
“You would think that a frog would be the worst place to land, because frogs love to eat mosquitoes,” Gould, a behavioural biologist at Australia’s University of Newcastle, told As It Happens host Nil Köksal.
Nevertheless, Gould has collected more than a dozen photos of mosquitoes in Australia on frog nostrils, leading him to conclude it’s a “highly
